Filmmaker Statement

All I yearned for as a young girl was to feel seen, not observed. I was already spending all my free time glued in front of a mirror, ripping out workout plans from pages of magazines, and always on the hunt for the newest beauty product that promised to stop my young adult self from aging. It didn’t help that every time I turned on the tv no one looked like me and if they did they were labeled as the “fat side character.” I wrote Moon Child to heal my younger self as well as heal every other woman no matter what age. Sadly there isn’t a woman who cannot somewhat relate to my story, and that is what I want the world to hear.