Sofia’s Media Blog

Sasha was an overly ambitious teenager, and her ambition led her to do things she never thought herself capable of, and as a thirty year old woman, she is reckoning with the relentless memory of a past she has tried her best to forget. She is at war with herself and her feelings of guilt and recrimination, and struggles to find the courage to accept and confront what she did as a teenager. Sasha is an unreliable narrator and the audience will be uncertain if they can really trust her and her recollection of her past.

I was resolute from the beginning on having a female character as the protagonist of the film and Sarah agreed with me on it. Sarah and I also wanted the focus of the film to be the issue of identity and how we as human beings grapple with it as our identities mutate over time, as we grow up during our teens and shift into adulthood. Initially, the idea for the plot was a girl running from an undisclosed entity in a forest but after brainstorming, our idea mutated over time into showing the coming of age of our female character, Sasha, when she's seventeen years old from her perspective as an adult as she struggles to deal with what led her to become who she is in the present moment. Ideas for the titles were (in)congruous, to illustrate the conundrum faced by her as she is unwillingly forced to blend in with the masses as an adult despite her ardent desire to strike out against her own and blaze her own trail as a teenager, or seventeen, as that is the age at which the event that...

I edited this video, using shots I’d taken with my iPhone, with the app Filmmaker Pro by putting all the videos together and trimming each video where necessary.

Sarah Kamran and I decided to team up for the film opening for our foundation portfolio, as we've built a rapport over the course of the past two months and think we'll work together well to combine our ideas together to create a film opening we're proud of. In terms of the distinction of roles, Sarah is the director, producer, editor and sound designer of the film and will be doing the camerawork whereas I am the writer, assistant director, cinematographer and set designer.