Official Selections: 9th LA Queer Film Festival
Congratulations to our accepted filmmakers!
Films are listed in alphabetical order, index to the left.
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How Are we Feeling Today?
Short
West Coast Premiere (also Los Angeles Premiere)
A dancer, Leah, tries to get back to her life while in recovery in an online eating disorder program.
Director: Lalia Hays
Producer: Amanda Quaid, Lalia Hays, Wiley Water Productions
Writer: Lalia Hays
Cast: Lalia Hays, Winsome Brown, Georgia Lifsher, Lily Yin, Sharon Lesser, Amari O’Connor, Sara Natochenny
Cinematographer: Fletcher Wolfe
Editor: Jasmin Way
Semi-Finalist Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, Official Selection Soho International Film Festival.
Instagram: @hawftfilm
How Are We Feeling Today? aims to change how eating disorders & mental health are usually portrayed in film by telling an authentic, raw, sometimes funny story of recovery. It tells the story of a dancer with an eating disorder, but this isn't the sad/cliché story of a girl who just won't eat enough. It's a story about fighting like hell to recover and live life on your own terms.
As a queer artist, the director is proud to have worked with incredible queer & non binary artists to tell this story, and hopes to bring awareness to mental health struggles in the LGBTQ+ community.