An undocumented immigrant in Philadelphia starts to fall for a roommate she’s never met — forming a connection that will test the limits of her romantic imagination.

Director - Imran Siddiquee

Imran Siddiquee is a filmmaker, writer, speaker, and activist confronting systems of domination. Their essays on representations of race and gender in popular culture have been published widely, including in The Atlantic, Buzzfeed Reader, Longreads, Salon, Bitch, and The Week. They’ve also contributed to the anthology Nevertheless, We Persisted and Our Stories: An Introduction to South Asian America.

Imran is the current Chief Communications Officer at BlackStar Projects, home of the BlackStar Film Festival and Seen journal, and previously held the same position at MediaJustice and The Representation Project (where they assisted on the Sundance premiering films MISS REPRESENTATION and THE MASK YOU LIVE IN). Imran is also the writer and director of SEA OF FOG, a short film about the impact of whitewashed romantic cinema which premiered at the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. Their short, LOVE RESET, was a winner of MTV's Look Different Creator's Challenge.