Maria Rojas (*1980) is a Venezuelan writer, actress and editor. Rojas holds a degree in Letters from the Central University of Venezuela and has received several awards in poetry and short stories. Maria has written scripts for short and feature films and has published five books. She gives workshops, literature classes and accompanies other writers in their creative processes. Spirituality and surrealism are main elements of her work.

During the fellowship in Schöppingen Maria Rojas wrote on the script for the animated fiction feature film “Loa, Kill Your Masters”. It is the story of Rosalie, a young orphaned African girl adopted by a family of French settlers in Haiti in 1792. She is torn between being with her adoptive mother, a marriage proposal with a mulatto or escaping with a lover to live as pirates. When she discovers the magic and powers of voodoo in herself these start to change the destiny of the island in an irreversible rebellion.