Marissa Mireles-Hinds

Marissa Mireles-Hinds is an Afro-Latinx and Caribbean-American filmmaker, writer, and artist based in the UK. She is the founder of Babes in Development, a free decolonial incubator and third space for Black women in the arts, formerly in community partnership for two years with the Barbican Centre. Babes in Development was featured across Dazed platforms, including a campaign billboard highlighting London-based communities. An excerpt from her novel in progress Sucre, or the Time Travelling Curse of Saint-Domingue was featured in From the Silence of the Stacks, New Voices Rise Vol V, an anthology from the 2023–2024 London Library Emerging Writers Programme.
Sucre was supported by the 2023 Bergstrom Writers Grant, which funded research in Haiti. Marissa was shortlisted for the 2021 RSL Sky Arts Award and won Best Poetry in Film at the Outspoken Prize for her film In Response, which screened at the Dhaka International Film Festival and Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin. She’s a member of the Black Writers Guild and co-curated a 2024 literary brunch for unsigned novelists with writer and editor Mireille Harper. She has also spoken on the London Library panel Continuing Conversations: Working Across Disciplines, in partnership with the Roundhouse and Barbican Centre.
She was named One to Watch by Campaign Magazine in 2022 and featured in Dazed x Circa’s Class of 2022 for her film climate change but make it (pop!), a project using AI to reimagine Hollywood films with a Black female lead. The film was screened internationally, including Piccadilly Lights in London, Berlin, Sydney, and South Korea. Other works include a commissioned poetry film for DISPATCH, an interactive audio poem with Inua Ellams and the Royal Opera House, and performances at Lovebox Festival, London Jazz Festival, and On Mass Jazz Festival at the Roundhouse. She has also created collaborative projects with youth programmes for Vivienne Westwood and the Amy Winehouse Foundation and has also spoken as a panelist for BBC Studios’ Top 100 Leaders and Brand Summit on Gen Z audiences, inclusivity, and brand.
Since 2017, she has worked across film, spoken word, exhibition, music, curation, and community. She’s collaborated with the Barbican Centre, Southbank Centre, Battersea Arts Centre, Film London, BBC, Meta, Netflix, Mercury Awards, and more. She has shadowed Armando Iannucci on David Copperfield, assisted Idris Elba, supported Sona Jobarteh, and produced work across the US, Turkey, South Korea, India, Nigeria, and the UK.