Sarah

A documentary chronicling a week spent in a Florida senior high-rise with the director’s grandmother, mother, and uncle, addressing unresolved grievances and impossible-to-ignore favoritism with unabashed authenticity and wit.

A daughter must face her passive-aggressive mother in order to finally move out of the family home, but she is forced to confront everything she assumes about their relationship when an accident happens.

OPEN is a thriller about giving up one’s sense of self for one’s child, told through the story of one foreign pregnant woman trapped in a picture-perfect community that wants to convert her into one of them: the ‘mothers.’ She is coerced into a state of hypnosis that turns to nightmare, and must fight to save her baby from the overpowering forces of conformity.

Speed Queen 51 was born out of a desire for simplicity—to craft a single tense and engaging scene. My goal was to present two morally ambiguous characters and resolves their situation without drawing a clear ethical winner. Cory and June are both looking to escape their lives and rid themselves of a persistent feeling of dissatisfaction; they’re also both people who, to an extent, believe themselves better than their surroundings. This dichotomy between a genuine, wholesome need to connect and dark, desperate self-preservation is what takes these characters on a journey from approachable strangers to their darkest selves.