Critically acclaimed filmmaker Pablo Proenza made his feature debut with Dark Mirror, a supernatural thriller Variety compared to Repulsion and The Others, praising its “spooky” and “fascinat[ing]… spin on the genre.”

Pablo has been receiving rave reviews for his work ever since his break-out film, a short called ViDi, was screened at festivals around the world. (“Superbly accomplished. A masterpiece.” - Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix.) A passionate cinephile from an early age, Pablo was given his first camera at the age of eight. Since then, he has worked in all aspects of film production: writing, directing, producing, shooting and editing. The son of Cuban-American immigrants (an economist for the United Nations and a gifted ceramicist), Pablo had an international upbringing (Washington, D.C.; San Jose, Costa Rica; Rome, Italy; Miami, Fl). Dark Mirror is Pablo’s first feature film.

Dark Mirror is being released by IFC Films on May 6, 2009.

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Press for ViDi

“For intimations of genius, there’s Pablo Proenza’s superbly accomplished ViDi…
A masterpiece…[set in the] not-too-distant-future, a world of futuristic technological
ennui that Proenza re-creates with the creepy atmosphere and acute details of a
Stanley Kubrick or a David Cronenberg.”
–Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix

“A keenly intelligent and powerful half-hour that successfully places us within a
fully realized world… ViDi feels like one of those career launching pieces [that
announces] the beginning of a beautiful relationship between filmmaker and audience.”
–Betsy Sherman, Boston Globe

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Press for Dark Mirror

“A spooky and fascinat[ing]… spin on the genre… Defying logic while continuously
flirting with it, Pablo Proenza’s debut feature about a haunted house — or a woman’s
madness, or both — sustains suspense throughout, thanks in part to the tour-de-force
perf[ormance] of Lisa Vidal as the eye of the spectral storm… In the tradition of ‘Repulsion,’
‘The Others’ and recent J-horror… Proenza convincingly adds another turn of the screw
to the equation of female hysteria and supernaturally possessed lodgings.”
–Ronnie Scheib, Variety