Short, fiction, 15 min, 2016

directed by Lauren Fritz
edited by Luiza Pârvu

A young gay woman long in the shadow of her famous mother is suddenly forced to confront a life without her.

Marla is a young woman who has spent her life in the long, dark shadow of her mother Gloria, a famous war photojournalist. When Marla finally begins to make a decisive move away and apart from Gloria, Gloria reveals plans that threaten to drag Marla back into her mother's dark world from which Marla may never be able to escape from.

directed by Lauren Fritz
written by Lauren Fritz & Carmen Zilles
cinematography by Oren Soffer
production design by Andrea Lauer
edited by Luiza Pârvu
sound design by Matthew Polis
color grading by Erik Choquette
composer Gene Back
produced by Lauren Fritz, Nathan Niamehr, Debbie Walters

Cast:

Carmen Zilles – Marla
Lisa Ramirez – Gloria
Liam Torres – Bobby
Daniela Mastropietro – Chiara