About Dina

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Dina Fiasconaro is a Baltimore screenwriter and director whose work centers female characters and explores thematic threads related to womanhood, marginalization, familial relationships and mental illness. Dina's films have screened at a variety of national and international venues and film festivals, including the Baltimore Museum of Art. Dina has honed her work at MacDowell, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Stowe Story Labs, Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund Labs,… more

Commercial for the Queen of Meatloaf

Commercial for the Queen of Meatloaf is a short film based on the play by Emilie Feldenzer. Marge is a bored housewife. Rex, her inattentive husband. In an attempt to spice up their relationship, Marge employs the Queen of Meatloaf, an ephemeral concoction that seduces Rex and Marge into a state of slumber, while permeating the homes of consumers with her enchanting aura and addicting gustatory appeal.
 
Rex returns home from work to find Marge in the kitchen, where she has been slaving all day over dinner. But this will be no ordinary dinner. Tonight, Marge is serving the Queen of Meatloaf, “a gustatory experience altogether unlike ordinary meatloaf.” The Queen of Meatloaf emerges silently from the kitchen in bedazzled, human form. Rex is taken aback. Marge regales him with the Queen’s nutritional and nuptial benefits. They are so overcome by the Queen that they fall asleep at the table. The Queen, in direct address to the camera, explains her irresistible appeal. She begins to multiply, emerging in various other human forms and wreaking havoc on consumer TV sets, before disappearing with a slow buzz and a fading dot of white light on the black screen.

The film was awarded a Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund Production grant and was completed in April, 2017. It has screened at over 25 film festivals, won Women's Voices Now! Best Experimental Film and was nominated for the New Filmmakers Los Angeles "Best Of" Awards: Best Comedy Performance (Aya Cash) and Best New Media (Dina Fiasconaro).


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  • Commercial for the Queen of Meatloaf - FULL FILM
    12:30m experimental narrative film
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    "Marge", played by Aya Cash
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    Derrick claps the slate
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    "Queen of Meatloaf", played by Jenn Harris
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    "Please, PICK UP THE PHONE!"
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    The Queen will seduce you with her gustatory appeal
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    "Rex", played by Will Rogers
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    Our tiniest Queen
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    More beautiful Queens
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    Psychedelic Queen