EVEN SAINTS BLEED | IN-PERSON (4/22)
EVEN SAINTS BLEED | IN-PERSON (4/22)
Chicago Filmmakers (map) | April 22 at 7:00 PM: Alma tries breaking her writer's block by spending a weekend away at her cabin only to find herself caught in a violent loop of her own making with her new artist friend Kia and boyfriend Fernando. EVEN SAINTS BLEED is supported by the CDMPF, a project of Chicago Filmmakers.
EVEN SAINTS BLEED
Join us for the world premiere of EVEN SAINTS BLEED, a CDMPF-supported short film, at Chicago Filmmakers on Friday, April 22 at 7PM followed by a panel discussion with Intimacy Designer and Coordinator Sheryl Williams and more guests TBA.
EVEN SAINTS BLEED follows Alma as she continues to retraumatize herself in order to complete her first novel. As she cycles through different rewrites, she meets a new artist friend named Kia who she quickly latches onto and hires to design her book's cover. While the two bond and collaborate on the design of Alma's work, Kia gets a sense of the inspiration behind the writing and feels compelled to protect her. Fernando, Alma's abusive boyfriend, shows up the next day with the intent to shut down the story she's writing. He fights to maintain his control over Alma after discovering Kia is working alongside her. As tensions rise, Alma's reality shape-shifts into the fiction she's written plunging her and everyone else with her down a path that will force her to choose between healing or continuing her cycle of self-retribution.
Informed by personal experiences, director and writer Ricardo Bouyett created the short film to serve as a statement that a survivor's healing journey isn't owed to anyone or guaranteed. That choice belongs to the individual, and whether or not they are able to take that next step into the water, they are still worth loving. (2021, USA)
Directed by Ricardo Bouyett
Produced by Sar Cohen and Daisy Cardenas
Key Cast: Nikki Harris as Kia, Sar Cohen as Alma, Felix Alexander as Fernando
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