Filmmaker Statement

Until I Met You explores friendship and mental health in a world where connection is digital and often artificial. Rachel is struggling with depression and anxiety– and constantly scrolling Tiktok and Instagram doesn’t help. One of her obsessions is Raquel, a cool DJ whose positivity online is equal parts inspiring and sickening. It all becomes too much. After a panic attack, she goes to a bar where she accidentally meets Raquel in real life, and discovers that she is not as she appears to be on the internet. To Rachel’s surprise, Raquel does not have it all together. When they start being vulnerable with each other, they are able to move past the facade of social media and learn how much they need real life. I wanted to make a piece that confronts mental health in a world where the Internet is so present in our lives. How can women confront what it means to view each other from afar, once they are forced to be closeup?