A queer college student must return to work at a burger joint in her hometown amid her parents getting a divorce and must confront her romantic feelings for her ex-best friend.
"Priya, an exceptional yet dangerously obsessive pianist at Berklee School of Music, cannot fathom how her senior showcase assignment—to compose a piece that encapsulates her greatest fear—misses the mark, according to the unorthodox Professor Argerich. While she struggles to find where she went wrong, isolating herself in a practice room, we learn about the painful reasons Priya became a pianist. It isn’t until her four years estranged mother, Lakshmi, reaches out that Priya understands where her true fear really lies. “Sanctuary” shows how true artistry and vulnerability often go hand-in-hand."
A college student attempts to process the loss of his grandfather through fishing. Having premiered at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City, "The Fisherman" has become a multi-award winning short film, winning 3 international film festival awards for best original score. It has been selected for a series of additional festivals and has won "Best Female Student Director" at the Indie Shorts Fest Awards.
Emmy Award Winner for Best Music Video at the 2023 Michigan NATAS Student Production Awards.
Written, Directed and Edited by Nicole DeLong.
An artist walks up to an easel and sits down. Prepared to draw a portrait. A man sits across from her in the medium gray room. He is dressed plainly and looks forward towards the artist. A voice-over compares the artist to the lover beginning to break the fundamentals of a portrait down into three parts: line, color, and the fleeting moment.
As the film continues its representations grow from technical to the every day as we analyze what makes a portrait as well as one's view of another. In the third act, the voice-over becomes more personal detailing specific moments in time and memories shared, as the line between portrait and love grows more blurred.
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