Sister in Red
SHORT NARRATIVE (horror/fantasy)
On her first road trip alone, a young woman hears a chilling sound inside her motel room and must decide how to suffer her fear: alone with her dark imagination, or in the company of an eccentric ex-circus star with an otherworldly explanation for the sound.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
“Sister in Red” tells a familiar horror story. But this time our main character does not face her demise from a beast, nor does her anxiety tear her apart from the inside for audience enjoyment. Instead, Eden learns to accept that every situation is potentially dangerous for someone who is not a cisgender man and that a wild imagination is not the enemy, but a potential path through fear via folklore. “Sister in Red” relishes in the juicy contradiction that to put words to what we fear, even if absurd, might at first scare us more, but will ultimately make us feel more alive, more whole, more seen.
The script is based on a massive survey of interviews about fear and folkloric traditions conducted by the director. Thus, “Sister in Red” reflects the lives of all types of people engaging bravely with what scares them in a world which gives them a myriad of reasons to succumb to the overwhelming nature of fear. This story affirms the beauty and survival value of oral storytelling, traverses multiple forms of media through pairing 2D animation and live action, and shatters tired victim, mentor, and monster tropes which have never served the femme, queer experience of fear. This project truly revels in the fabulous perspective women and nonbinary people in horror can bring.
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CREW
Director, Writer / Elle Rose Rinaldi
Executive Producers / Roya Alidjani, Ana Fangayen
Producers / Ana Fangayen, Allegra Licci
Production Companies / Ladytrap Productions; Chicken And Cloud; Ugly House Pictures
Director Of Photography / Kyra Isabella Chen
Casting, Assistant Director / uddin
Production Designers / Amira Stone, Victoria Barbarito
Edited By / Victoria Barbarito, Payton McCarty-Simas
Additional Editing / Elle Rose Rinaldi, Ben Cooper
Colorist, Visual Effects / Kyra Isabella Chen
Animator / Felice Wong
Sound Editor and Re-Recording Mixer / Elle Rose Rinaldi
Composer / Dan Langa
Concept Artists / Abelardo S. Garcia, Leaf Lieber
Line Producer / Ana Fangayen, Holly Wagner
Script Supervisor / Regina Cruz
Costume Designer / Victoria Barbarito
Hair And Makeup / Linnea Summer
Graphic Designer / Abi Lidia Phoenix
Circus Poster Designer / Ashlyn Rudolph
Puppet Builder / Christina Rodriguez
1st Ac / Ella Sinskey
2nd Ac / Hannah Barker
Gaffer / Tate Shockley
Key Grip / Britney Bautista
Grip / Stirling duBell
Production Sound Mixer / Hannah Webb
Boom Operator / Alicia Qian
Choreographer / Ameeya Singh
PA, Driver / Anthony Valdés-Strickler
PA / Alec Schlesinger
BTS Photographer / Alina Patrick
CAST
Geffen Aviva as Eden
Maude Mitchell as Jarka
Kevin Rivera as Jester
Mark Shock as Ringleader
Ciara Chanel as Nely
Eric Tucker as Strongman
Vít Hořejš as Master Puppeteer
Elle Kaye as Contortionist
Tim Rinaldi as Unicycle Boy
Ameeya Singh as Twin 1
Elle Rose Rinaldi as Twin 2