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Behind a polished smile, Ruby Harker is an exhausted actress quietly unraveling beneath the surface. Cast as the face of a blood donation campaign, she endures an uncomfortable film shoot while messy gossip about her divorce and new lover circulates online. Her controlling manager looms over her every move, leaving Ruby with less power than she realizes. When she discovers she must actually donate blood on camera, a hidden secret surfaces: she's pregnant. Caught between her manager's pressure and her own health, she faces an impossible choice. In the end, Ruby smiles through the pain… and donates anyway.

Sophia S. Lim

Creator

Sophia S. Lim is a Korean-American filmmaker who grew up in West Texas and is currently based in New York. She is an MFA candidate at Columbia University Graduate Film Program for Creative Producing for Film/TV. She earned her B.B.A. in Canfield Business Honors Program and Accounting at the University of Texas at Austin. She has worked in both development and theatrical distribution at trailblazing media corporations such as A24, Detour Inc. (Richard Linklater), and Antigravity Academy. She has worked on numerous short films and contributed as a Kissing Video Producer to the Sundance award-winning feature film Dìdi (弟弟). She is drawn to films with surreal and comedic elements, as well as authentic representations of AAPI stories. more...