Monica Ma — Untitled · Draft 1
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An original screenplay · in three acts

Monica
Ma

A creator-performer who writes her own roles.
Logline Told as a child she'd never dance or perform, she spent decades mastering technology, story, and image across three continents — then stepped in front of the camera and refused to leave. This is what she does.
Minsk · Moscow · San Francisco — now filming in San Diego, CA
Juicy Couture spec commercial
Act I · Direct
SPARK + REBEL
Act II · Design
Voices in Jessica's Head comedy
Act III · Act
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0.
INT. SILICON VALLEY — THE EARLY YEARS
Prologue

Silicon Valley

Before the camera, there's a creative director out of Silicon Valley. She starts at Smule, shipping chart-topping music apps where everyone's a performer. Then Google — emerging tech and animation: Pokémon brought to life on the Pixel 4 with the Emmy-winning Spotlight Stories team, and Tilt Brush, the Cannes-winning VR painting app. And all along, in parallel, she's directing indie films and designing fashion. The training, it turns out, was for this.

The Silicon Valley work →
SmuleMusic apps · Sing! · Magic Piano
Google ATAPPokémon · Pixel 4 · Spotlight Stories
Tilt Brush VRCannes Gold Lions, 2017
In parallelIndie film directing · fashion design
NowDesign Director, Ziff Davis · health & fitness
1.
INT. THE EDIT BAY — NIGHT
Act One

The Director

A monitor glows; frames fly past, then lock into rhythm. Her thesis film out of the SF School of Filmmaking — a Juicy Couture spec commercial, a post-apocalyptic fashion fever-dream she directed, art-directed, and produced with a 50-person crew. The eye that makes a thing look like it cost ten times the budget.

View the directing work →
Juicy Couture spec commercial reel
Juicy Couture — Dir. Monica Ma
Monica Ma directing on set of the Juicy Couture spec commercial
On Set — Directing
2.
EXT. THE RUNWAY — CONTINUOUS
Act Two

The Designer

Fabric moves like it has somewhere to be. Fashion and costume as character — as art director she built the world of the Gorgon City music video; as founder she designs SPARK + REBEL, her modular sustainable label. She doesn't just dress the scene. She designs the world it lives in.

Gorgon City — art direction →
Enter SPARK + REBEL →
Gorgon City music video character, art direction by Monica Ma
Gorgon City — Art Direction
SPARK + REBEL sustainable fashion brand
SPARK + REBEL — Eco Fashion
3.
INT. JESSICA'S HEAD — DAY
Act Three

The Actor

This was the dream all along. A youth-theater kid from Minsk who spent decades building everything else first — then came back to the stage. In 2025 she started dancing and began performing live; in parallel she created "Voices in Jessica's Head," a comedy she writes and stars in, playing every character. Range, fearlessness, comic timing — the performer the whole story was building toward.

Watch the comedy →
The channel →
Full performance reel — coming soon
Voices in Jessica's Head — a Sparkpick comedy
Voices in Jessica's Head — Comedy Series
4.
INT. THE STUDIO — ONGOING
The Craft

Training

Movement & Dance

  • Hip-hop
  • Contemporary
  • Locking
  • Zumba
  • Musical theater
  • Taekwondo

Stage & Screen

  • Filmmaking — SF School of Digital Filmmaking
  • Theater — Minsk youth theater
  • Acting — private coaching
  • Public speaking — private coaching

Languages

  • English — fluent
  • Russian — fluent
  • German — conversational
  • Spanish — conversational
5.
INT. EVERYWHERE — NOW

She doesn't pick one role. She plays all three at once.

Creator.
Performer.
Auteur.
To be continued…
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