NEW YORK PREMIERE
SYNOPSIS
After a mysterious incident, a mid-20s non-binary sex worker must consider making a life-altering decision during one late summer weekend in New York City.
STARRING: Lily Lady, Annie Conolly
RUNTIME: 14 minutes
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
My film is based on a true story; a tragedy that occurred when a family friend’s son committed an atrocious crime. Watching a mother I know go through this forced me to start examining my own reactions, biases and conclusions surrounding these tragedies which ultimately shifted the way I began to understand them. It was that experience that inspired me to write this story highlighting the complexities of being the mother of a child who commits an violent crime. By putting the viewer in the mother’s shoes in real time for 13 minutes, as she races to stop her worst nightmare from becoming a reality, I hope the viewer will begin to question their own reactions. In offering a story told from a perspective that is so often silenced in social dialogue, I aim to broaden the dialogue we have around mental health and gun violence.
DIRECTOR: Lily Lady
SCREENPLAY: Lily Lady
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Matt Harvey
EDITOR: Brendan Dean
MUSIC: Carlos Dengler
PRODUCER: Dan Lalor
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Howard F. Seligman
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Lily Lady is a non-binary writer and artist from New York City.