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A 16 minute two hander starring Emmy Nominee Asante Blackk (When They See Us, This is Us, Euphoria) and Malia Pyles (Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, Cape Fear).

Set during a late-night study break, the film follows a grief-stricken college athlete as he opens up to a classmate and begins to navigate emotions he’s never dared name.​​​​

STORY

 

After losing his mother and suffering a shoulder injury that takes him out of competitive diving, a freshman athlete finds himself emotionally unmoored at an elite university he no longer feels he belongs. But when a classmate from his philosophy seminar gives voice to an emerging feeling he’s unable to define, he invites her out on a late-night study break—hoping, perhaps unconsciously, that connection might offer him a way back to himself.

What follows is a charged, chicken-or-the-egg debate about the origins of language and feeling: Do we inherently know what we feel, and seek language to articulate it? Or can the addition—or absence—of vocabulary shape feelings we’ve lost, forgotten, or have yet to discover?

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