About this submission

After a harrowing ALS diagnosis, Eric Lim is given the opportunity to test a virtual living experience called Metamorphosis. With the encouragement of his daughter Tegan, the two embark on a tour of the simulation, discovering a picture-perfect recreation of Eric’s home and a removal of all his ailments. But when glitches in the system start to show, Eric begins to see that his newfound “freedom” isn’t what it seems while Tegan tries to preserve their relationship, no matter the cost. They both must decide if hiding inside this illusion of normalcy is better than facing their new reality head-on.

Kaylen Ng

Creator

Kaylen Ng is a first-gen Singaporean American producer/writer/director from Palos Verdes, California, with an undergraduate degree in Creative Producing from Chapman University’s Dodge College. Her interests lie in pulling intelligent and sharp genre-bent narratives out of unexpected sectors while highlighting the experience of underrepresented communities. She was a 2022 Coca-Cola Refreshing Films finalist, a 2023 Television Academy Foundation Star Trek Command Training Program fellow, a 2024 Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles fellow (Grand Jury prize winner), and a featured filmmaker in Season 3 of Red Bull’s Establishing Shot. Currently, she works in development and production at Justin Simien’s Culture Machine. more...