Copywriting, translating & subtitling
Mari is an experienced copywriter, copy editor and translator.
Past and current clients include PBS, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), HBO (Vice News, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver), several Vice Media titles, leading post-production house Deluxe Media in Los Angeles, and creative agencies such as Amsterdam-based Foster & Kin and Long Beach-based NORKWWD.
In 2021, Mari translated Dutch theater company Club Gewalt’s new musical Anthropoceen into English, ahead of its world premiere at O.Festival in Rotterdam.
Copywriting and translation samples are available upon request.
Screenwriting
In 2019, Mari’s short film script At Midnight was a finalist in the AT&T Hello Lab competition and one of her tv-spec scripts advanced to the semi-finals of NBC’s Writers on the Verge fellowship. Her dramedy pilot Big Maybe was a finalist for both Athena Film Festival Writers Lab and Outfest Screenwriting Lab in 2020 and a Sundance Episodic Lab semi-finalist. In 2021, the script advanced to the final round of The Orchard Project’s Episodic Lab. Mari’s drama pilot Silver Palms was a 2021 Sundance semi-finalist.
She has served as a reader for the annual Austin Film Festival Script Competition, produced and directed theater benefit performances for HomewardLA in Los Angeles, and is a Human Rights Watch Film Festival screening committee member.