La Marea (2026)

Where the Santa Barbara Channel meets the waters around the Channel Islands, La Marea follows the enduring belief shared by many coastal tribes that the souls of the dead journey west across the ocean. Through tides, light, and restless currents, the film frames the sea as a threshold between the living and the departed, weaving ancestral cosmologies together with contemporary stories of exile and return. Made in conversation with Bryan Senti’s score—part of a larger body of work shaped by his father’s exile from Cuba by sea—La Marea transforms these oceanic crossings into a shared meditation on displacement, remembrance, and the unseen forces that continue to