After being confronted by a sexual assailant on a San Francisco metro, an Asian American woman struggles to reconcile the transgenerational trauma she has endured with her need to protect herself.
Director Biography - Cindy Dinh, Alyssa Carter
CINDY DINH is a filmmaker and an actor. The child of Vietnamese refugees, she experienced her American upbringing as both painful and invisibilizing. Growing up, she straddled different cultural identities and struggled to metabolize reverberating intergenerational trauma. Through the creation of hard-hitting dramatic narratives, Cindy delivers her unvarnished emotional truth with a powerful veracity, leading to healing and integration of both individual and society. She recently starred in a staged production of No Exit and co-created the short film, Designer Genes.
ALYSSA CARTER is a Digital Creative Producer based in Los Angeles, CA, working for companies such as Maker Studios, Fine Brothers Entertainment, Disney Plus, and TubeScience. Since 2013, Alyssa has written, directed, and produced several independent short films, music videos, and branded commercials. Her short musical film, SING ABOUT IT won “Best Comedy” by the Subversive Cinema Society in 2016. In 2017, her one-take short film, GRAPES won “Best Choreography,” as well as a “Best Female Filmmaker” nomination. Her most recent short film, LAS 17 was awarded “Best Short Film” by the NSAEN Film Festival 2018, and “Best Micro Short” by the United Latino Film Festival 2019. Alyssa looks forward to building on stories of female empowerment and amplifying the unheard voice with this next short film, TRAPPED IN MOTION.
After being confronted by a sexual assailant on a San Francisco metro, an Asian American woman struggles to reconcile the transgenerational trauma she has endured with her need to protect herself.
Director Biography - Cindy Dinh, Alyssa Carter
CINDY DINH is a filmmaker and an actor. The child of Vietnamese refugees, she experienced her American upbringing as both painful and invisibilizing. Growing up, she straddled different cultural identities and struggled to metabolize reverberating intergenerational trauma. Through the creation of hard-hitting dramatic narratives, Cindy delivers her unvarnished emotional truth with a powerful veracity, leading to healing and integration of both individual and society. She recently starred in a staged production of No Exit and co-created the short film, Designer Genes.
ALYSSA CARTER is a Digital Creative Producer based in Los Angeles, CA, working for companies such as Maker Studios, Fine Brothers Entertainment, Disney Plus, and TubeScience. Since 2013, Alyssa has written, directed, and produced several independent short films, music videos, and branded commercials. Her short musical film, SING ABOUT IT won “Best Comedy” by the Subversive Cinema Society in 2016. In 2017, her one-take short film, GRAPES won “Best Choreography,” as well as a “Best Female Filmmaker” nomination. Her most recent short film, LAS 17 was awarded “Best Short Film” by the NSAEN Film Festival 2018, and “Best Micro Short” by the United Latino Film Festival 2019. Alyssa looks forward to building on stories of female empowerment and amplifying the unheard voice with this next short film, TRAPPED IN MOTION.