Filmmaker Statement

I remember those nights where I first discovered dance music and drugs. The power of a deep red lipstick and the lure of the city lights. I remember looking for love in all the wrong embraces. I didn't know what it meant to be hurt until I was. My cousins and I struggled with an identity torn between worlds. Who we were inside the house differed from who we were outside of it and our hearts ached because of it. This film is about you when you're young and feel a whole heap of complex feelings you don't quite understand. You act on things that are still forming. When the night feels full of possibilities and yet you go home alone with a disappointment that reaches deep into the lining of your stomach. That feeling is the essence of what this short film is. I want the audience to really feel that themselves. This is one of the first stories of the Indian-Fijian diaspora to be told on our screens. I could not be more excited about bringing this story to life. Victoria Singh-Thompson Writer&Director