Adriana Marchione
- Director
- Producer
Adriana Marchione MA, REAT, RSMT has been involved in the arts for over thirty years as a filmmaker, dancer, photographer and is internationally recognized in her work as a movement-based expressive arts therapist and educator. Since 2002, Adriana has taught and directed programs at the renowned Tamalpa Institute, California Institute of Integral Studies, WHEAT Institute in Canada and founded her own wellness center in San Francisco. She has presented her creative healing approach with a focus on addiction, eating disorders, trauma and grief, at festivals, conferences, and treatment centers including South by Southwest, Studio le théâtre du Corps in Paris, National Council on Drug and Alcohol Addiction, and the prestigious Commonwealth Club. Over the last decade, she has been making documentary films including When the Fall Comes (2014) based on her own life story encountering intimate grief and loss. When the Fall Comes was translated into French and Korean and streamed in universities across America and Canada through Kanopy. Adriana recently directed The Creative High (2021), an award-winning feature documentary featuring artists in recovery from addiction who are transformed by creativity. Notably, she received the Artist of the Year Award from In Recovery Magazine in 2016.