directed by

Abbey Spacil

starring

Arianna Veronesi

Logline

Anna is an immigrant actress determined to succeed, even if it means contorting herself to fit Hollywood’s misogynistic standards. We find her nearly unrecognizable and succumbing to the all-consuming trauma when she revisits a feminist poem that thrusts her into a wild and fantastical journey of total self-reclamation.

The Wise Woman

by Rachel Kann

She says,

Let me die a thousand deaths,

if only for the privilege

of beginning again.

She understands the

ungloved grip,

the electric twinge

of impossible nostalgia,

that longing to get off-planet.

She says,

There is nothing wrong with this longing;

nothing wrong with your yearning,

nothing wrong with you,

there is no weakness in your grief,

not on iota of brokenness

in your inability to roll with this

regular regimen of sucker punches

life offers up in shameful abundance.

She urges you to

feel yourself,

to resist

falling in line

with hazardous

prevailing paradigms.

She says,

Despite popular opinion,

your discomfort

is actually the likeliest sign

of your alignment.

Your lack of resonance

with that which oppresses

the intuitive

is what will save

the whisper within you.

Your guts have always known

the rhythm.

There is no misstep

in your glory choreography.

Your unwillingness

to dance around the issue

will make for the greatest

of entrances.

One more step forward.

The gate will swing open.

Deep breath now,

lean close,

welcome in.