Winner of the Sundance Film Festival's NEXT Audience Award,
Ma Belle, My Beauty explores the intimate re-encounter between two former lovers of a polyamorous triad. Bertie, an esteemed New Orleans vocalist, has recently married French trumpet player, Fred, and moved with him to southern France, where, to Fred's distress, she’s since been uninspired and refusing to sing.
Lane, the quirky ex of their past imploded polyamorous relationship, shows up hoping to get Bertie back in the swing of things. It seems time has not healed all wounds, but old passions suddenly simmer to the surface when Lane takes interest in another woman.
Marion Hill is a filmmaker whose roots spread from Vietnam to France and England, and is now been based in New Orleans.
Marion's work is devoted to narratives and visuals of queer femininity and femme power, using the camera to authentically center the nuances of queer sensibility, sexuality, sensuality and feminine agency across cultures.
MA BELLE, MY BEAUTY, their first premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and received the Audience Award for Best Film in the NEXT category. The film has also played at 2021's SXSW, San Francisco International, Seattle International, Outfest and Newfest, and was recommended in the New York Times' Sundance lineup. Marion's early short films Bird of Prey (2016) and Goddess House (2018) played at festivals including Frameline, Sidewalk, and Outfest Fusion, and collectively now have over 5 million views online.
Marion regularly produces work for New Orleans multi-media station, WWOZ, and is co-founder and video director of the People's Media Front of New Orleans.
