During UCLA’s Summer Institute Film Production Program, students from various countries and experience levels were brought together to collaborate in a fast-paced six-week schedule. As a Glendale Community College student, I got to participate in four upper division film production courses with other students where we got to learn about the pre-production, production, and post-production aspects of filmmaking. The most intense part of the program was creating four short films by the end of the sixth week, which would get screened at UCLA James Bridge Theater. After a process of double election, my screenplay was one of the four chosen projects where I also experienced becoming the script supervisor and sound editor.

 

This project is called “Epiphany,” and my goal was to write about the reversal of the feminist movement post-WWII and its effects on women’s mental health. I used the genre of psychological thriller in order to tell the story of a female pilot during WWII who began to feel isolated and trapped in her new role as a housewife post-war. Susan who has a seemingly perfect life with her husband and son suddenly becomes unable to move any of the objects in her home, and the setting becomes a reflection of her mental state within this short film.