It really resonated with me to understand that short film is a medium where storytellers can truly experiment and I love that! One of our senior lecturers at the AFI Conservatory who teaches World Cinema encourages us to explore storytelling outside the traditional structure and he showed us many eyeopening and impactful nontraditional short films. In the feature version, we get to explore all four characters. We did our due diligence and looked at what the film would look like if we went with a single storyline and then ended up settling on having two storylines in the short so that the heart of the film stays intact. One of the biggest risks the team heavily discussed was having more than one narrative within a short film. The script went through a lot of development the months before we went into production. How have the script and film evolved over the course of their development? We also do this with the two men in the film who act on violence and to seek control. Armed with two perspectives, we portray two sides of the same coin, an immigrant mother who had abandoned her child and the first generation children who have been abandoned from two different cultures coexisting and brushing each other’s lives during one incident. This project comments on the complexity of living in America as a person of color, immigrant, female and a first-generation American. And underneath it all, the undercurrent of deep-rooted and misunderstood unconditional love stays present between the broken relationships desperate for reconnection. In combination, they serve to also challenge the micro and macro aggressions of our society onto those who are cast off as different. The film explores the desires for control, identity and family. How do personal and universal themes work in your film?
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