Filmmaker Statement

This is a film about a young girl trying to make sense of her changing world. Nora is feeling a sense of great emergency - but no one around her seems to feel it too. Her town is being evacuated for a natural disaster, but the whole community lingers at home. Her big sister is being pursued by a sketchy older boy, and yet she still wants to go to his party. Nora's sense of urgency matches my feelings when I was her age - I saw a world that seemed like it could end at any moment: global warming felt imminent and a local school shooting felt very likely. I wanted to do something about it and yet, the adults around me seemed like they were dilly-dallying. It felt like they didn't care that the world was going to end. The film is about this exact feeling that happens when one is at the edge of their youth. We filmed it deep into the pandemic, and the kid actors were immediately receptive to the concept - they too felt like they were waiting for the world to end.