About this Video
Families are complicated and dysfunctional. Being the backbone of our family, it was the unthinkable for my Mom to leave home for college in search for a better future. She was the mother figure putting her siblings before herself. I wanted to speak about the unfortunate progression to when that limit is reached. I wanted to shine light on a story of the tough love and sacrifice necessary to break an unforgiving cycle. This script developed with the belief that her story, the dreams she thought were too big, were universal and would inspire many in similar situations.
Creator
Kymon Greyhorse
Creator
Kymon Greyhorse is a Tongan and Diné award-winning writer-director from Albuquerque, New Mexico. His debut short, I AM HOME, premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and led to a collaboration with renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz for IKEA. The film streamed on AMC+ as part of the Indigenous Rising Stars collection and is currently available on PBS.
A 2022 Sundance Indigenous alum and 2023 HuffPost Culture Shifter, Greyhorse tells stories rooted in Polynesian and Indigenous identity while pushing his artistic range. In 2024, he developed KOPE, a psychological horror-noir at NYU TISCH's Graduate Film Directing Lab, exploring new storytelling territory.
Greyhorse was a top 10 finalist in the 2025 Tyler Perry Studios Dream Collective, traveling to Atlanta to pitch KAKALA, a coming-of-age story about a Tongan teen navigating tradition and identity, while completing a 10-day intensive on the studio lot, working with actors, crews, and mentors to refine his directing skills.