Today & Tmrw (2026)
Two best friends, Mariah and Kimberly, navigate their after-school routine in New York City.
SHORT FILM BY MARIALES DIAZ
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Two best friends, Mariah (b) and Kimberly (Imani Lewis), navigate their after-school routine in New York City. What starts as an ordinary day takes an unexpected turn as the teens explore their closeness, revealing their unspoken attraction for each other and finally uncovering Mariah’s secret—that she wears a binder and has been doing so for years without Kimberly’s knowledge.
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Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival
Rio LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
Cleveland International Film Festival
Puerto Rico Queer Filmfest
Trans Image/Trans Experience Film Festival
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2026 / 12 mins / USA
English with English subtitles
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Director: Mariales Diaz
Producer: Yoko Kohmoto, Liat Z. Rubin
Executive Producer: Imani Lewis, Brittany Ngaw
Editor: Mariales Diaz, Harry Cepka
Cinematographer: Imani Dennison
Cast: b, Imani Lewis, Devon Ford Jr., Alfred Cabrera
Production Designer: Starr Jiang
First Assistant Camera: Gabriela Azevedo
Art Director: Raga Maddela
Gaffer: Quentin Guobadia, Zach Nicholson
Key Grip: Jared Meyer
Production Sound Mixer: Jonah Bravo
Intimacy Coordinator Alison Novelli, Cheek to Cheek Intimacy
BTS Photography: Gina Detres
Production Assistant: AnQi Yu, Karoline
Assistant / Additional Editor: Nick Okrepkie
Sound Designer & Re-Recording Mixer: Paul Wyderka
Color: Rachel Kong
Title & Credits Design: Starr Jiang
Music: Mars Verrone
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Mariales Diaz (Director, Writer, Editor)
Mariales Diaz is an award winning gender-expansive Dominican writer, director, producer and programmer living in New York. Their storytelling explores experiences that exist within the intersection of survival and love. Diaz’s produced work has played at film festivals such as BlackStar, SFFILM, Hot Docs, New Orleans and Palm Springs Short Fest. They have worked on the production and post-archival teams at companies such as Pilgrim Media Group, Religion of Sports, HBO Max, ESPN and Proximity Media. They are a graduate of the SUNY Purchase Film Conservatory and a 2024 Sundance Institute Trans Possibilities Fellow. They also have participated in fellowships and artist programs such as Film at Lincoln Center's Artist Academy, Sundance Ignite, Creative Culture at The Jacob Burns Film Center, and NeXt Doc. Diaz currently works on the programming team at Rooftop Films and is in pre-production for a new short documentary focused on ecuavoley and the robust organization of the sport throughout Brooklyn.
