Filmmaker Statement

We are two creatives whose friendship was born out of trauma, and we wanted to tell a story we’ve never seen. Meeting each other at the height of the #metoo movement, a time that was as empowering as it was re-traumatizing for us both in our own recovery journeys, we formed an unspoken connection over the pain that only we could see in each other. Equal parts inspired to tell an important story of the significance of female friendships and enraged by the continued focus on violence and bad behaviors and the ugliness of trauma, CRESCENDO was born. Frustrated by not seeing eating disorders or trauma portrayed in ways that made either of us feel represented, and instead re-traumatized by media’s obsession with violence that masquerades as commentary, we seek now to reframe. With this project, we turn away from the thorns of violence and focus instead on the part of trauma that is beautiful: the strength of women, the camaraderie of empathy, women healing women.