About
Rhea, a young Indian girl living in the US, is struggling to make a decision that impacts her life and dreams - whether to stay in the US or go back to India due to visa circumstances - when a chance encounter with an immigrant grocery store manager leads to an unexpected bond between the two.DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
We all want to see a version of ourselves on screen. Being a South Asian filmmaker living in the US, I wanted to represent a version of the world that we come from. A culture that celebrates human connection and family bonds. To represent some of the emotional struggles and challenges we experience living far away from our families. To talk about a choice we made and that it comes with a price. To show ambition and dreams co-existing with love and empathy.
DIRECTOR & DP
SNIGDHA KAPOOR
Snigdha is an Indian Cinematographer and Director based out of New York City. She is a visual storyteller with a background in Journalism and Advertising who finds the process of communicating through films, liberating. Her work spans from narrative (feature and shorts), music videos to experimental and commercial content. She believes that the art of cinematography embraces understanding subtext, subtleties and deeper psychology to best visually represent the story, characters, and the tone.
She is known for her work in Shattered Beauty that won her best cinematography at Asian American Film Lab. As cinematographer, her feature film Antofagasta, New York shot in New York and Chile has been included in Chilean film catalog (2017).
Her latest music video Aghor, an homage to all women changing the course of one sided history by action was recently premiered by Brown Girl Magazine and her latest fashion film as a cinematographer, Rituals, has been published in Oyster Magazine.
She is a proud member of NYC Women Filmmakers and Kalakars, a South Asian film collective.
WRITER/PRODUCER/LEAD ACTRESS
LEAH KHAMBATA
Born and raised in Mumbai, Leah Khambata is a Parsi (a community now less than 80,000 worldwide) actress/filmmaker/singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles who always looks for ways to combine both her passions – Film and Music. She double majored in Film Studies and Psychology at Wesleyan University, during which time, she made her own short film “A Future To Hold” for which she won a Women Filmmakers Award from the Best Shorts Competition. Upon graduation, she worked in different facets of production in NYC, including positions on the film, Emily & Tim (starring Alexis Bledel and Kal Penn,) and Meadowland (directed by Reed Morano and starring Olivia Wilde.)
Leah then graduated in May 2018 with an MBA from Cornell University during which time she associate produced the TV Pilot of Surina & Mel (directed by Abi Varghese and starring Melanie Chandra,) acted in three short films in NYC, starred in two Off Broadway plays, worked in Drama Development at CBS TV Network in LA, and also studied acting at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She is now based in LA working as a Film Acquisitions Executive for ShortsTV and starring in short films and plays. She is a member of Kalakars, the South Asian Film Collective as well.
Zenobia Shroff as “Geeta/Mother”
Known for The Big Sick, The Affair, The Resident, Madam Secretary
Soumendu Bhattacharya as “Sameer”
Known for Megh and numerous theater productions
Jason Emman Crowley as “Matt”
Known for Dollhouse, Lobelia