The Young Film Forum (YFF) Archive Dive: PIN: A PLASTIC NIGHTMARE

Writer, Director, Producer Paula González-Nasser (she/her) is a Colombian filmmaker currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. In 2016, she and Ryan Martin Brown co-founded 5th Floor as a film collective after graduating together from the film program at Florida State University. Paula’s feature directorial debut, THE SCOUT, had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. In 2025, Paula was named one of 25 new faces in independent film by Filmmaker Magazine. She has also produced films like Melina Valdez’s WEAPONS AND THEIR NAMES, which premiered at Sundance 2023, and Ryan Martin Brown’s FREE TIME, which received three nominations at the inaugural Slamdance Indie Awards. She is a two-time Gotham Film Week participant and a 2023 Sundance Producers Intensive Fellow. Previously, Paula worked as a location scout on many New York films and TV shows such as High Maintenance, Russian Doll, Search Party, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS, and more. Mimi Davila is a Cuban-Bulgarian actress, comedian, writer, and filmmaker raised in Miami. She appears in Julio Torres’ PROBLEMISTA and was a series regular in the Amazon/Annapurna Pictures pilot Hot Pink. Her directorial debut, Pangea, was in competition this year at Palm Springs International ShortFest. In 2024, she sold her comedy series The Chonga Girls to CBS, which she was set to star in. Stage credits include, Ophelia in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Hamlet and her original comedy shows at San Francisco SketchFest, the New York Comedy Festival, and Dynasty Typewriter. Next, she is set to appear in the feature film, IN AN ORDERLY FASHION starring Oscar Nuñez. Amy Zimmer is a New York-based writer, comedian, actor, and filmmaker. Her writing and acting has appeared on HBO, Adult Swim, A24, Neon, The New Yorker, Comedy Central, Sundance, MoMA’s New Directors/New Films, and The Cannes Film Festival. Her acting credits include STRESS POSITIONS, directed by Theda Hammel and produced by John Early, PROBLEMISTA by Julio Torres, and THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED by Joanna Arnow. She currently stars in the critically acclaimed independent feature BLUE HERON, directed by Sophy Romvári and distributed by Janus Films.