Genel Mejia’s The Redemption of Faust is heading to Hollywood as an Official Selection of the 2026 Indiewood Film Festival, where it will screen on Saturday, September 12 at 9:30 p.m. at the TCL Chinese Theatres.
The film marks another step in the festival journey for Mejia, whose work is shaped by surrealism, Gothic imagery, fantasy and a strong visual sensibility. Rather than approaching the Faust legend as a conventional adaptation, The Redemption of Faust uses the familiar themes of temptation, consequence and redemption as the foundation for a more dreamlike cinematic experience.
The film stars Tristan Hissons, Regg Davidson, Maritza Mejia, Laura Nimr, Victor Chavez and Molly Miklos.
For Mejia, the Indiewood screening also carries personal significance. Born in a small rural town in Mexico, he grew up working on his family’s farm, surrounded by nature and the stories of his grandparents. At 15, he immigrated to the United States, later joining Ironworkers Local 378 in Benicia, California, while studying filmmaking at community college.
That background has remained central to his creative identity. Mejia has often drawn inspiration from nature, memory, poetry and the visual language of classic and experimental cinema, using those influences to build films that favor mood and imagery as much as traditional narrative.
The Redemption of Faust continues that approach, combining dark fantasy, mystery and stylized imagery to create a film that feels theatrical, atmospheric and intentionally removed from everyday realism.
The upcoming screening at Indiewood places the film in the heart of Hollywood, where audiences will have a chance to experience Mejia’s visual interpretation on the big screen.
The screening is scheduled for Saturday, September 12, 2026, at 9:30 p.m. in Theatre 4, as part of Block BB at the TCL Chinese Theatres, 6925 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California.
For Mejia, whose path began far from Hollywood, the Indiewood selection represents another chapter in a career built around transforming memory, imagination and personal experience into cinema.