We were lucky to catch up with Nina Demarchi recently and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Nina thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. What did your parents do right and how has that impacted you in your life and career?

My parents created me for the world and not for themselves. I see many people whose parents don’t let them go far, always want them around and want to protect them from the world. This leads to co dependent people who feel like they can’t create their own lives. My parents always gave me the freedom and confidence to go after what I want, even if it’s far from them. They allow me to create my own life and deal with my own problems with no guilt. Always supporting me, while allowing me to face the world.

Nina, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I got into acting because it was truly the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do for a job. when I was 10 my dream was to be an actor in a soap opera in Brazil, I would beg for my mom to take me to an audition. Being an immigrant in the US, especially during High School, my confidence was shot and I believed I couldn’t be an actor here, I had an accent and didn’t feel good enough. But my desire to be an actor was always on the back of my mind growing up. One day I just decided to take the risk and follow my dreams. After getting into acting I started creating my own work, I started writing my own short films, directing them and even learned how to edit them. What sets me apart is the fact that I give my best to every project. I treat every project with the care and attention it needs, going above and beyond. I also bring good energy to whatever I do. I am most proud of the risks I’ve taken. In the last two years I’ve moved to New York, wrote many short films and produced some of them, got into musical theater, learned how to direct and became a way better actor. The most important thing for me is to always keep moving forward, becoming better, and always give it your best shot. I have also created my own brand for the shorts I made called Filmarchi. Where I want to tell stories while leaving people with important life lessons to think about.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

Everybody who is an artist knows how stressful it can be, and how much pressure we can put on ourselves because we don’t want to let people down and because we are always trying to prove ourselves in some level. The paradox is that after you do your preparation the best thing you can do is letting go and trusting yourself, trusting your body and your impulses. For me the most rewarding aspect of being an artist is in those moments where you let go, and all of the sudden in the middle of a performance magic happens, you say a line or you feel your characters emotions like you never had before in any rehearsals. When you can’t explain what happened. The mix of all the hard work you’ve been putting, the pressure of show day and the magic of being on stage. When you touch people in a way you didn’t even know you could. that’s where the most rewarding aspect lays. Together with the peace of mind of knowing that you were brave enough to actually follow your dreams.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

In the last two years I’ve been studying method acting and creating short films. At the beginning of both you could say I was a bit of a perfectionist. I wanted to work hard until everything was perfect. I didn’t want to show anything to anyone unless I was satisfied with it. For acting this is a recipe for disaster, because you will never be 100% satisfied with what you did. That’s the beauty of it, you can’t guarantee that one way of going about your work or one way of saying a certain line is better than the other because there’s endless ways to do it, we will never even get a chance to try all of them because each person brings themselves to the role. This perfectionism ended up just making me stuck. I would chase emotions and try to understand everything so much that everything would just run away from me. As for my writing, I wanted everything to be so good that I ended up being stuck and not showing my projects to people because they weren’t perfect. So I have learned to just accept things as they are, do my best but not keep chasing perfection because it does not exist. Sometimes the best thing you can do is just relax and let things be. That is often when you find your best ideas.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://ninademarchii.wixsite.com/mysite
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ninademarchi_/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Filmarchi
• Other: other YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuQjukgZjYRc1p1xtYNqDXg

Image Credits

Tula Gout, Harsh Desai, eight8allphoto