About this submission

In the summer of 2023, I moved to a temporary sub-lease place to save money upon graduation. Jobless, I searched for the cheapest housing option without knowing who I was living with. All I had was their phone number. Our schedules never aligned and I was only able to know them through groceries and text. Subconsciously, I automatically made assumptions about their gender and race. And I was gravely mistaken. “Icing on Her Cake” is my reaction to this experience.

Cedric Christophorus

Creator

Cedric Christophorus is an Indonesian-born writer and director whose films focus on quirky and comedic reflections on societal norms. Currently, he works at ARRAY, a leading Black-owned production company in the United States, while independently producing films through Cinema Inclusion where his team is dedicated to nurturing and developing genre-bending narratives led by Indonesian filmmakers. Cedric contributed as a writer for Ava DuVernay’s ORIGIN Learning Companion and is part of the production team for DuVernay’s MasterClass "Reframe Your Thinking" and the ABC Owned Television Special "Our America: Hidden Stories." His film projects have screened at Academy-Award qualifying festivals and earned a nomination from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences - Michigan Chapter. more...