After moving to LA, an ambitious filmmaker enjoys considerable success. But these achievements force her to grapple with the memories of a death through the powerful, cleansing forces of water.
Winner of the Audience Award 2021. In Los Angeles’s Chinatown, a lonely teenager tries to help her parents keep their seafood restaurant afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic. Between chopping green beans and packing takeout orders, she attempts to hang on to a semblance of normalcy by studying for her driver’s permit and prepping for her highschool Zoom theater debut in “The Tempest”.
Silvia Lara is the recipient of the inaugural Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award. Her film comprises poetic vignettes, capturing the essence of life in her home town of Whittier, California through the perspective of its residents
