A short film about the dark side of sisterhood, and about growing up...or not.

When Hazel runs away from a terminally-ill mother into Prague’s wintry fairytale-esque nightlife, Rachel finds her.
But the euphoria of their rekindled sisterhood shatters as the two talk…

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FEATURETTE:

THE DISENCHANTMENT OF A YOUNG ADULT AND A WILD CHILD is my battle-cry as a first-time female filmmaker and an actress. When I graduated NYU Tisch, the only roles I could audition for cast women as victims or vixens. Not people: hyper-sexualized props. In defiance, I set out to create a film about women defined not by their looks, but by their uniquenesses, weaknesses, and choices told from the female gaze. THE DISENCHANTMENT -- onscreen and off-- champions this empowered female vision. We hired an army of thirty female filmmakers to tell a tale about the dark-side of one of life’s most intimate and least cinematically-explored relationships: sisterhood. Through photographer Hazel’s camera (literally, a female gaze), we watch as Rachel and Hazel’s nostalgia is shattered. As their relationship unravels, the girls unravel sexist, limiting stereotypes (of manic-pixie dream girl and cold-lawyer-bitch); and the film itself unravels around them --the cinematic elements of music and color are stripped away, stranding Rachel and Hazel on a bathroom floor, in raw reality. ~Hannah Roze