Arroyo Seco Films – Production Company

About

Arroyo Seco Films was established in 2008 to create film, TV and digital media productions that are both challenging and entertaining.

Our Team

PABLO MIRALLES, Writer, Producer, Director & Creator.
Pablo Miralles graduated with an MFA in Film/TV at UCLA and has over 35 years of film and video production experience as an acclaimed director, writer and producer. His award-winning documentary “Can We All Get Along? The Segregation of John Muir High School,” earned him an IndieFEST Humanitarian Award, two LA Press Awards as well as a nomination for an Los Angeles Area Emmy. Pablo also served as Production Coordinator on Cedar Grove Productions’ Academy Award winning short film “Visas and Virtue” and Co-Producer on their Emmy nominated short film, “Day of Independence”. In 2025 Pablo is releasing a short Educational Film about a son of famed abolitionist John Brown titled “Owen Brown’s Body” as well as producing “Compton to College”, a feature documentary examining a college access program which is propelling historically underrepresented high school graduates to the most competitive Universities.

CLARK HARRIS – Producer, Editor & Writer
Clark Harris graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in economics. After graduation, he worked as an analyst at an economic consulting firm before transitioning into production work. He later worked at the post-production department of a major video game publisher. He went on to receive an MFA in Film/TV Production at USC. He has helped create numerous television commercials and industrial videos. He edited the award-winning documentary “Altina.” Most recently Clark has collaborated with Pablo Miralles on the award-winning feature documentaries “Can We all Get Along? The Segregation of John Muir High School” and “Compton to College”.

ARIANA MERLINE – Producer’s Assistant

Ariana Merline is a Boston University Senior graduating with a film production degree in May 2025. She was a founding member of Boston University’s first Black Film Society, acting as Treasurer and DP for the society’s first production. She is a practiced photographer and videographer, and hopes to make a career in documentary filmmaking as well as cinematography. After interning at Arroyo Seco Films for Spring 2025, Ariana will be moving out to LA to continue post production work with Arroyo Seco Films on the “Compton to College” project.

Consultants

MILLICENT CRISP, Producer, Director of Sales
The multi-talented Millicent, a scholarship recipient to the University of Southern California for theater; spent several decades as an award winning actress in theater, film, commercials and TV. In addition to her acting career, she is a published author, magazine writer, music promoter, and former member of the Warner Bros legal department. Most recently Millicent has participated as partner of the Armory Center for the Arts, Member of the National Association of Professional Women, and worked as President of the global charity organization, Global Impact.

CARL PFIRMAN, Story Editor
Carl Pfirman is an editor from Los Angeles. Carl’s editorial credits include: the Emmy award-nominated HBO feature documentary A Small Act (premiered at Sundance 2010); the feature documentary film “The Georgia Holt Story” which premiered on Lifetime TV in May, 2013; the feature film The Making of an Avant-Garde, which premiered at MOMA in June, 2013; the feature documentary film Tyrus which just received funding from Women In Film; and the documentary Limited Partnership about a bi-national gay couple’s 40-year battle with the INS/ICE to stay together in the United States (premiered at the 2014 Los Angeles Independent Film Festival). Limited Partnership was one of the very few films selected for ITVS funding and will air in 2015 on PBS’s Independent Lens Series. Carl’s UCLA graduate thesis film won a Student Academy Award. As a writer, his screenplay “Sugar Land” was a Quarterfinalist for the Nicholls Screenwriting Fellowship and selected for the Outfest Screenwriting Lab. His commercial work has been honored with a CLIO award and a GOLD PENCIL from the New York One Show.

JOY SAPOZNIK, Graphic Artist & Web Designer
Joy is a multidisciplinary professional with over 20 years of experience in design, branding, and web development, and since 2012, in digital marketing and entrepreneurship. She has been collaborating with Pablo Miralles on Arroyo Seco Films projects since 2011, bringing her creative vision and digital expertise. With a strong background in project management and digital strategy, Joy bridges the gap between creativity and functionality—translating ideas into engaging visual narratives across platforms.