Rewriting the Script: Pia Suarez and the Art of Reinvention

Life rarely follows a neat or predictable trajectory. Instead, it moves with a rhythm of its own, twisting, looping back, pausing, and redirecting us at the most unexpected moments. Doors close without explanation, only for new ones to appear exactly when we need them. Some of us walk many different paths within a single lifetime, collecting experiences along the way, shifting careers, relocating across countries and cultures, pursuing new passions, and earning wisdom. Those who find their way into film often carry this spirit of curiosity, an openness to what could be. Film is a world fueled by imagination, built on collaboration, and driven by the belief that ideas can be made real. It lures people in because of its creativity, pace, ability to breathe ideas to life, and ultimately, to make the impossible possible.

Pia Suarez, the new Global Managing Director of Future Lovers (formerly Morning), a Service division of global production company Landia, is one of these people. Her story is one of resilience, reinvention, and the steady, unbreakable thread of passion for the craft of filmmaking. She has rewoven her life multiple times, and followed the subtle but undeniable pull of purpose, even when the path was unclear. Half American and half Argentinian, Pia grew up between New York City and Buenos Aires. She studied film in both cities and knew from a young age that this was the world she wanted to belong to. After working in advertising in New York, she returned to Buenos Aires, and fate led her more deeply into film.

At just 23 years old, Pia began teaching at a film school in Buenos Aires. Within a short time, she rose to become the head of the school. Under her leadership, the institution gained government recognition by the Department of Education and developed a student exchange with the New York Film Academy. It was during this time that Pia learned invaluable lessons in film, business, leadership, and production. She balanced teaching with hands-on work in production, including contributing to feature films such as Evita, where she developed close relationships with directors and producers who would influence her work for years to come.

Eventually, Pia co-founded an all-female production company in Argentina with two other women, one based in London and the other in Budapest. They loved Argentina and wanted to film there, and needed a local production partner. And so, Pioneer Productions was born. For nine years, they produced high-level work for global directors and brands, shooting around five commercials each month during high season. Their success was not only professional, it changed how the game was played in Argentina.

Over time, the three women moved in different directions- families, children, new career paths, and Pioneer eventually dissolved. Their work, however, left a mark. In an industry dominated by men, these women disrupted old systems and showed what was possible. They mentored aspiring women filmmakers, educated them, and watched them become EPs across the world.

Pia later stepped back from film to raise her children and worked in the culinary world, another long-standing passion of hers. When her son received a soccer scholarship in Miami at age 20, Pia moved with him to help him settle into a new culture and language. Meanwhile, Argentina was undergoing another cycle of instability, and Pia began to consider what it might mean to rebuild her life in the U.S. after many years abroad. While visiting family in New York, something awakened in her. She decided to stay and explore a new chapter, although she wasn’t yet sure what form it would take.

Then, fate stepped in once again, this time through connection.

One of her former PAs, now at Landia as a HOP, told Thomas, the CEO, about Pia—her accomplishments, her innovations, her leadership. Thomas reached out immediately and shared his vision to relaunch Morning, a production company created before the pandemic but never fully developed. He had been searching for someone who could grow it globally—and Pia was the perfect match. She brought decades of experience, bilingual fluency, deep cultural understanding, entrepreneurial grit, and the desire to build something meaningful again.

The company has now been renamed Future Lovers, and Pia is leading it as Global MD, pouring her time, energy, and talent into building it into a top-tier service production company. One of the main things that Pia is focusing on at Future Lovers, like she did with Pioneer Productions, is the human side of things. She is committed to the people she is working with throughout the entire project. 

“Now that technology is kind of invading us, we have to show the world that there's still space in the circle for human people and relations. The heart connection with people. This is what we’re losing when it comes to technology,” Pia says. Her role is about connecting to clients, listening deeply, and adapting quickly. She’s keeping the emotional pulse alive on set.

Pia sees this new chapter as a return to what truly matters. People want to enjoy working together; they want to connect, laugh, create, and feel inspired. As a woman who has reinvented herself many times, this phase of her career gathers everything she has lived: the cultural fluency, the leadership experience, the reinventions, the risks, the quiet resilience, the motherhood, the business-building, the artistry, and the courage to begin again.

We at GPN are excited to see where Pia leads Future Lovers, and look forward to watching this next chapter unfold.