Mental Pix Studios is a production company known for offering an outsider perspective of the American experience influenced by its lead filmmaker, D. Wilmos Paul’s international exposure. Wilmos is a three-times award winning filmmaker with a compelling combination of focus born from his life experience as a refugee in Africa, immigrant in America and skilled learned from honing his storytelling craft in Los Angeles. Staying connected to his roots and exploring his identity in his newfound home in America is how he developed his gift for creating authentic, lived-in worlds and immigrant underdogs at the center of his stories.
Wilmos is currently in post-production on his latest project, PROMISE, a romantic dramedy centered around an immigrant with an expiring green card, Promise, and a parolee, John, who find their marriage of convenience becoming something more.
D. Wilmos Paul’s MOTHER’S TONGUE (Mother Tongue) was an official selection of the 2023 Comic-Con International Children’s Film Festival, and Twin Cities Film Festival, winning the director’s spotlight award at the UCLA TFT Film Festival and award for best film in the diaspora at the Liberian Film Awards.