Filmmaker Statement

I’ve lived in New York City for many years now and it is a large part of my DNA as a writer and director. The city is a place ripe for quiet observation. One thing that’s always struck me are the invisible heroes that walk through it each day that go unnoticed. At some point, nannies became those quiet heroes. As I watched them in the park telling the children with them to “be kind,” or to be whatever they dreamed of being, I marveled at the quiet dignity with which they were raising someone else’s child. All my scripts delve into the platonic relationships between women: They are core-shaking love stories that are not explored enough. In Veo Veo A Family, Mothers and nannies are worlds apart in so many ways. At the same time though, I wanted to depict that love story between them. Because in digging into their humanity, one can find these women actually want the same things - for their kids, for themselves - and in that sense they become reflections of one another.