Dark Roast, with Framingham Actress Diana Porter, Shown at Massachusetts Independent Film Festival

Framingham resident Diana Porter participated in a staged reading at the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival, earlier this month.

That same night, Aug. 8, a film Porter stars in titled Dark Roast was screened at the Festival.

Directed by Pete Yagmin, Dark Roast is a short supernatural horror-comedy about a Reaper seeking love in the mortal realm.

Porter has the role of the Reaper.

Her first role as a professional actress was in 2011 as Alpha the cold and efficient, government created, super soldier, assassin in The Final Shift.

Since then she has portrayed a diverse lot of characters from a caring mother in Half Pint, to a struggling wife in Fraternitas, to a psychopathic killer in Earl Grey and a woman lost in the world in Misdirection,  to name just a few.