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