When affluent Silicon Valley entrepreneur Neal Kumar’s beautiful, sensitive daughter, Maya, tragically commits suicide during her freshman year of college, no one seems to knows why. In his frantic quest to find the truth – and as his seemingly idyllic life and family begins to unravel – Neal discovers many things about himself and his own choices.
Director Biography - Saila Kariat
Saila Kariat is a filmmaker and entrepreneur with a lifelong fascination with film and a diverse background. She is passionate about the art of film and its potential to influence people. After obtaining her Ph.D. in electrical engineering, Saila worked as a research staff member and a product engineering manager at IBM, and in a leading-edge start-up company as director of marketing. Becoming the mother of two girls prompted her to discontinue working for corporations and start a residential construction company. She pursued her education in film in parallel, obtaining a degree from San Jose State University. She wrote the screenplay for The Valley, her feature directorial debut, which tells the story of a successful entrepreneur in Silicon Valley who seeks answers after the suicide of his daughter. The Valley was in over twenty film festivals and won best feature film in five festivals. Saila has completed a feature screenplay, Gods and Demons, about an idealistic doctor in South Africa who becomes involved with a nihilistic traveler who ends up in her clinic, and is developing three others, Love in the Time of Corona, For The Children and I Was Never Awake. Saila lives in Los Altos with her husband and children.
- Year2017
- Runtime02:07:00
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorSaila Kariat
- ScreenwriterSaila Kariat
- ProducerSaila Kariat, Yumee Jang
- CastAlyy Khan, Suchitra Pillai, Barry Corbin, Jack T. Austin, Christa B. Allen, Samina Peerzada
- CinematographerPaul Norden
- EditorRobin Lee
- Production DesignVictoria Lewis
- ComposerJacob Yoffee
When affluent Silicon Valley entrepreneur Neal Kumar’s beautiful, sensitive daughter, Maya, tragically commits suicide during her freshman year of college, no one seems to knows why. In his frantic quest to find the truth – and as his seemingly idyllic life and family begins to unravel – Neal discovers many things about himself and his own choices.
Director Biography - Saila Kariat
Saila Kariat is a filmmaker and entrepreneur with a lifelong fascination with film and a diverse background. She is passionate about the art of film and its potential to influence people. After obtaining her Ph.D. in electrical engineering, Saila worked as a research staff member and a product engineering manager at IBM, and in a leading-edge start-up company as director of marketing. Becoming the mother of two girls prompted her to discontinue working for corporations and start a residential construction company. She pursued her education in film in parallel, obtaining a degree from San Jose State University. She wrote the screenplay for The Valley, her feature directorial debut, which tells the story of a successful entrepreneur in Silicon Valley who seeks answers after the suicide of his daughter. The Valley was in over twenty film festivals and won best feature film in five festivals. Saila has completed a feature screenplay, Gods and Demons, about an idealistic doctor in South Africa who becomes involved with a nihilistic traveler who ends up in her clinic, and is developing three others, Love in the Time of Corona, For The Children and I Was Never Awake. Saila lives in Los Altos with her husband and children.
- Year2017
- Runtime02:07:00
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorSaila Kariat
- ScreenwriterSaila Kariat
- ProducerSaila Kariat, Yumee Jang
- CastAlyy Khan, Suchitra Pillai, Barry Corbin, Jack T. Austin, Christa B. Allen, Samina Peerzada
- CinematographerPaul Norden
- EditorRobin Lee
- Production DesignVictoria Lewis
- ComposerJacob Yoffee