Linda
June 4, 2024
A coming-of-age film about grief, female friendship, and finding belonging in life. It follows Linda, an awkward Latina-Australian 16-year-old who is grieving the death of her mother, and therefore struggling to feel any emotion or support the people around her, she must learn to be vulnerable to find happiness.
Writing this treatment pushed me to attempt a long work for the first time, dreaming up a feature length film felt so large and intimidating as someone so comfortable with short form writing. The studio helped break the huge project into smaller manageable sized pieces, it helped me make sense of the narrative structures endlessly repeated in film so that I might copy and at times rebel against them. For something I pulled out of the ether the characters and the story feel so real, and I think that is what I’m most proud of.
Please enjoy Linda