About Us
A STORY WORTH TELLING
We Provide Quality, Compelling Storytelling with Diverse Voices and Cultures
We believe that film has the power to ignite the imagination, to bring history to life, and to produce films with unique voices.
MARLEX FILMS is a production company dedicated to the creation and production of powerful and compelling storytelling. We believe in a collaborative filmmaking approach. Bringing culturally diverse international and domestic visionaries together in “the telling of our stories”.
MARLEX FILMS was founded by Soraya Sussman, Maria Isabella Rojas, and Alexis-Isabella Sussman. The company is committed to our Mission: “to provide quality compelling storytelling with diverse voices and cultures”. We thrive to achieve this with our Vision: “to celebrate diverse artistry with a focus on creating powerful film productions that captivate the human spirit”.
We are an entertainment company that provides a vehicle for innovative filmmakers to create quality films with unique voices. We started our filmmaking journey in 2019 with the production of three short films – DON’T PUT ME ON HOLD, XTRA DIRTY, and LET ME DOWN. In 2022, MARLEX FILMS will produce two short films – BAYABIVE ROSE BALL and SORAYA and THE IRISHMAN. In addition, in 2023, our first full-length film, THE GRAN HEIST. These films will usher in the next generation of MARLEX FILMS’ production expansion and growth onto the global entertainment marketplace.
Ultimately, we remain dedicated filmmakers fostering a media entertainment outlet to explore, showcase and represent excellence in film.
Focused on Quality Content
We are committed to quality storytelling. For this reason, we collaborate with bold and like-minded partners from around the world to create films with unique voices, from distinctive points of view.
Modern Filmmaking Process
Never before have we counted with the tools and opportunity to produce strong and relatable films, which can connect to a wider range of audiences. At MARLEX Films we combine the centennial knowledge of filmmaking with today’s technology.
We’ll Tell It Right!
We are dedicated to being an outlet, producing and showcasing stories that are worth telling, just like how they deserve to be told.
Cast & Crew
MARLEX'S PRODUCTION TEAM
MARIA ISABELLA ROJAS
Maria Isabella Rojas is a Queens-based producer, writer, and performer with a focus on new theatrical works. She is currently the Co-founder and Artistic Director of The Company We Keep Theatre Productions, where she has starred in and produced Nick Payne’s Off-Off Broadway Production of Constellations. She has performed in and developed work at Atlantic Theater, New Dramatists, Latinx Playwright Circle, and Peculiar Works. Production credits such as: Aztec Pirates and The Insignificance of Life on Mars at The Chain, and HOLA nominated production of Constellations; and workshops of new plays by Nandita Shenoy, Juan Ramirez Jr., David Davila, and others. She has served as Executive Producer for Lone Star Media and is Co-founder and COO of MARLEX Films, which produced three short films: Xtra Dirty, Let Me Down, Don’t Put Me on Hold, Please.
ALEXIS SUSSMAN
Alexis Sussman is a film and theater associate producer. In 2019, she Co-founded MARLEX Films, LLC. which produced three short films: Xtra Dirty, Let Me Down, Don’t Put Me on Hold, Please. In 2023, she Co-founded a Queens based theatre production company called The Company We Keep Theatre Productions, (TCWKTP) which is run by an all-Latina Collective. In 2024, she worked as associate producer on the TCWKTP of the Off-Off Broadway play “Constellations” by Nick Payne at the Chain Theatre in NYC, which was nominated at the 2024 HOLA award for “Outstanding Achievement in Theatrical Design”. She is currently working on co-producing a full-length feature “Stygian Fields”. Currently, she is pursuing a career in entertainment law, graduating with a Juris Doctorate in Law in Spring 2025.
SORAYA SUSSMAN
Soraya Sussman is a theatre and film producer, and writer based in Queens, NY. She is Co-founder and CEO of MARLEX Films, LLC. which produced three short films: Xtra Dirty, Let Me Down, Don’t Put Me on Hold, Pleas. Also in 2019, she co-wrote Stygian Fields, a full-length film script, currently in pre-production developmental stage. In 2023, she Co-founded a Queens based theatre production company, The Company We Keep Theatre Productions, (TCWKTP) which is run by an all-Latina Collective. In 2024, TCWKTP produced the Off-Off Broadway play “Constellations” by Nick Payne at the Chain Theatre in NYC, which was nominated at the 2024 HOLA award for “Outstanding Achievement in Theatrical Design”. Currently, she is developing an original play to present as a stage industry reading in Queens, NY in 2025 and on stage in 2026.
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