SCREEN WRITER
GRACE SHIENBEIN
A professional Canadian writer with extensive ghostwriting credits on multiple published novels and narrative works. Her ability to craft emotionally precise, layered character arcs while maintaining narrative mystery makes her the ideal voice for Luminaria’s unique tonal tightrope..
She's currently working on projects for Kevin Anderson & Associates, and a few original screenplays.
CINEMATOGRAPHEr
JAYSON BERNAL
Panama-based director of photography with commercial campaigns for Kia, Adidas, and Reebok. His command of natural light, minimal lighting packages, and documentary-adjacent realism will ground the series’ metaphysical questions in tactile, believable imagery
DIREcTOR's VISION
ADAM MENDOZA
I’ve seen stories like this portrayed on screen over and over again — as spectacle, as political allegory. That’s not what I’m interested in.
What if the impossible happened in a single flash — sudden, silent, and without any warning — and the world, instead of descending into chaos, immediately agreed on one calm, rational explanation? What if that explanation was a lie… and everyone chose to believe it anyway?
Luminaria is my attempt to explore those questions. My vision is to depict the events of a sobering moment unfold exactly as it might in real life— just ordinary people, quietly trying to make sense of things while the official story hardens into accepted history.