adulting

When Lalo is thrown off course by the sudden death of his father, he suppresses his loss with impulsive actions that disrupt his life. While he and his best friend Karla, both in their mid-twenties, queer and Black in Germany, try to shape who they want to become, they are forced to grapple with the limits of their flexibility.

NATIVES follows a close-knit group of queer, twenty-something native New Yorkers whose lives are turned upside down by the return of 25-year-old Izzy Sanchez. After a failed attempt to start a new life in LA, Izzy comes back to the fictional Trenton Houses, prompting the group to navigate the complexities of modern relationships, friendship, and adulthood.

A man tries to conceal his extensive use of marijuana when he goes home for the holidays to have dinner with his family. A stoner comedy short.

In the chaotic sprawl of Mexico City, a Venezuelan immigrant navigates a cycle of failed dates and binge eating to fill the void of a lost relationship, only to realize that reclaiming his own joy is a radical act of resistance worth fighting for.

"Cause all the music you loved at sixteen, you'll grow out of. And all the times they will change, it'll all come around", Lorde humming in her song, Stoned at the Nail Salon (2021). It gets me, 15 years old Alma, into something that she fears the most. Getting old. With the fear that she can't be as joyful as her teenage years and living the life as she supposed to be. But in this love letter wrapped in video form, I just hope Alma and her little self know that her life is her own personal space, she can do anything, personalize everything, and get creative with all of her ideas. Your life supposed to be fun according to you, and your fears should be wrong because you have all of those control upon how she's going to live her life.