Roots

An experimental short inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 novella, Carmilla. On the eve of her wedding, Lydia's isolated life is disrupted by the arrival of Deianira.

After immigrating to Queens to live with her devout Catholic grandmother while her mother remains in the Philippines, young Filipina Mayumi’s desire to love a Filipina-American girl clashes with Lola’s strict religious beliefs.

Through an arrangement of intimate and artfully captured moments from everyday life set to an entrancing and ethereal soundtrack, this montage-style short film captures the transient dreaminess of being seventeen.

A young woman reflects on her high school drug addiction on a weekend trip to her hometown in Pennsylvania where it took place.