Filmmaker Statement

Director Statement The conception of “Plant Story” began in Spring 2020 in the beginning of the pandemic. Born from isolation and wanting to create characters who were conversing in an isolated manor, also made it ideal for safe shooting that started later that year. I wanted to explore the topics of the social media influencers, privacy, obsession, and fetishism, in a horticultural setting of the plant subculture world. I myself discovered the universe of “#plantdaddy”’s and “#plantstorys”, while in a social media deep dive one very long day. “Plant Story”, is a cross genre film that blends suspense/horror, comedy, and drama, and I hope gives the audience a feeling of escapism as well as introspection.