SIN RAÍCES | SHORT FILM

 
 

ALMA, a recently adopted 8-year-old refugee from El Salvador, spends a day preparing for her first red carpet appearance at an awards show with her new pop star mother, YAHAIRA. She learns from example and mirrors a series of routines as she absorbs that perhaps to cement her place in this new like she must be "liked" in more ways than one. As she takes in her new environment, she finds herself haunted by whispers of the life she left behind and awakened to the fragility of her new one after an innocent series of actions and encounters with her newfound fans on social media doesn't go as planned.

Director: Gabriella A. Moses

Written by: Gabriella A. Moses

Producer: Lissette Feliciano, Annalie Gernert, Joan Smalls, Charlie Schmidlin, Polina Buchak, Shruti Rya Ganguly

Cinematography: Freddie Whitman

Editor: Polina Buchak, Gabriella A. Moses

Music by: Nitzia "Nitty" Scott

Sound Design: Patrick Burgess

Art Direction: Carla Sendino

Main Cast: Viktoria Luna, Sasha Merci, Maddie Blue, Nira, Hillary Sproul, Shani Divine, Anjini Azhar, Willie Huang, Darlene "Dee" Demorizi, Ed Ventura, Darius Levant