It was August 2021, and the time that every film student awaits was close: senior year, when we got to direct our thesis films.
This post was written by Linda Paola Varela.
I had spent the summer writing a realism-based script about a Mexican mother and daughter and how they struggled to handle the daughter’s mental illness. It was heartfelt and simple, used only one location, and seemed like the perfect script for a successful student film. Then I scrapped it.
I ended up making a film called I’m Just Trying to Help. The logline was, “A young woman seeking a novelty treatment for her mental illness finds herself in a fight for survival against an eerily cheerful AI avatar and the doctor who created her.”
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This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
