KAYA

Directed by Catherine Fordham, 2018 (13 min)
FOFIF FUNDED FILMMAKER. Received funding for her short film, KAYA.

A woman’s desperate search for her teenage sister and the truck driver who trafficked her erupts in violence when she delivers justice on her own terms. A revenge thriller starring Shakira Barrera (GLOW, Queen of the South), KAYA screened at a MoMA-curated screening in NYC, won the Audience Choice Award at the Las Cruces International Film Festival, won Best Director and Best Actress the Central States Independent Film Festival, and enjoyed a three-week theatrical run opening for The Nightingale at Nithehawk Cinema Cinema in New York (2019). The film was shot on location in Socorro, New Mexico, and was supported in part by a grant from The Future of Film is Female.

Learn more about Catherine here.