ESMÉ

A short film shot on one roll of Super 8mm (no post production) about the cyclical nature of toxic relationships and the painful experience of ending one.

writer/director/producer Angelique Kalani Axelrode
direction of photography Nick Demairis and Pat Demairis
choreographer Gigi Todisco dancers Cami Árboles, AnnMarie Arcurie
sound designer Gladstone Butler voice over Kate Nerone script editor Daniella Ndubuisi-Ike

Top 25 Straight 8 Film Festival

Screened at British Film Institute on May 27, 2023

Encounters Film Festival 2023

Cinemateca Portugesa and Cinema Trindade October 4 & October 6, 2023

London Short Film Festival 2024

*The Straight 8 Film Festival requires participants to send in a developed single roll of super 8mm film, without any editing, grading, or post-production, including a blind soundtrack that is synchronized with the first frame of footage.