“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Maya Angelou
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Who?
My name is Fanny Vega and I am an actress, and filmmaker.
I’ve brought together a team of filmmakers, actors, directors, and artists to raise funds for our short film. We are all passionate about telling authentic stories that heals, unify, and bring communities together, in order to support personal and collective healing.
The story
Over the course of one restless night in New York City, a woman with a fractured sense of self drifts between her own chaos and quiet reckoning. Echoes of distant versions of herself reappear as shadows, and fragments of her scattered identities surface in every corner. Tired of facing the same wall, she finds herself on the edge of truth.
What?
This is a deeply personal story about shattered identities, belonging, and finding the courage to speak for your truth. It explores the struggles we carry in life, the wounds we inherit and most of all, choosing to speak and feel rather than suppress, it's a movie made to heal, connect, and support one another.
It is the story of what I have been carrying, the weight of what is unspoken, the patterns passed down, shaping our lives, identities, bodies, and minds without us even realizing it.
This story isn’t just mine. It’s connected to the struggles of so many, to families torn apart by borders and regimes. It’s about memory, resilience, and the fight to belong without erasing who we are.
Why this Film Matters
Inspired by
Inspired by realities I've come to know and resonating with my father’s journey, who fled the dictatorship in Argentina in the 1970s and arrived in Europe without knowing a word of the language, nor the culture. It is also for my Abuela, a beautiful Indigenous woman, native to the Argentinian region who fought to survive after her ancestors were displaced from their territory, struggling to find safety and a place to call “home.” For many generations, our family worked in the fields in order to survive.
Adapting to a dominant culture often means hiding parts of yourself to avoid rejection and any immigrant families pass down the belief that worth must be “proven” through constant achievement, as if to justify the sacrifices made in migration. Those patterns lives in our genes and repeat themselves if we don’t bring them the awareness they require.
We inherit more than genes, we inherit coping patterns, silence, and the ways our parents survived. This film gives a form to what stays hidden and invites audiences to see their own reflections in it. You’re supporting the dreams of a team of artists to tell meaningful stories, speak their voices, and connect through the act of creation.
This film is my way of bringing them out in the open, turning what is inside me into something visible, shared, and alive, in the hope of healing those parts. Writing it over these past years has been deeply therapeutic and has brought perspective on how I see the world and myself.
Statement
I have come to find clarity in the spaces between words. Through researching my family’s traumas and engaging in somatic experiences, I have reshaped my understanding of myself and my past. I began this work because I was carrying burdens that once felt too heavy to bear. In search of truth, I have chosen to speak my inner truth, no longer shaming what is here, but saying yes to every opportunity to sit with it and face it.
It is incredibly scary to put yourself out there, but it’s also the medicine I've found to move forward, to heal, and to acknowledge the self.
I’ve spent much of my life silencing myself to meet the expectations of others, shaping myself to match who I thought they wanted me to be.
I hope this film opens space for connection, building bridges toward family and community and supporting our collective awareness and healing.
It’s in expressing our truth and declaring to the world who we are that life begins to open for us. This is about moving forward with who we are, and what we have, reclaiming our voice and choosing differently.
Where We Are Now
Securing locations and locking the pre-production part. We are raising funds for production polish and post-production.
The Team
Fanny Vega - Writer, Producer, Director, and Lead Actress
Fanny Vega is a French-Argentinian-Swiss actress, artist, and filmmaker based in New York City. Her work blends intimate, emotionally rich, multilingual storytelling with visually bold cinematic worlds. She has written, produced, and starred in several films, including Est-ce que je suis, Charged, Supervision, and To Sell, all of which have screened at festivals. In addition to her own projects, she has acted in numerous independent films in New York, often taking on multiple creative roles both in front of and behind the camera.
Trained in Paris under director Daniel Mesguich and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in New York, Fanny forges her craft at the meeting point of classical precision and the raw truth of method acting; a deep exploration of character psychology.
Zohar Varadi - Director of Photography
Website
Zohar Varadi is a Swiss director of Photography.
He first discovered his passion for cinematography through action sports, with the likes of BMX and freeride skiing.
This background in capturing fast and unpredictable motion made him the artist he is today. Honing his skills through guerilla filmmaking and music videos taught Zohar how to react quickly to the moment that is being presented and do so in a visually beautiful way.
Through his keen appreciation of the gritty and raw he has a deep interest in making narrative films that tackle social themes as well as documentary work. His appreciation for the power of light on our emotions is always center to his work.
Part of the technical crew who will be helping on set
Nikita Gorlov - Production and technical crew
Professional photographer and cinematographer dedicated to capturing mood and truth in every shot.
Conrad De Menil - Production and technical crew
Director and cinematographer based in Brooklyn, telling stories through photography and film with a human-centered lens.
What does your contribution support?
Your contribution will help cover cast and crew wages and meals during the shoot, rental costs for camera gear, sound and lighting equipment, production design expenses, and insurance to ensure the safety of everyone on set.
We are appreciative of any amount you are able to give, no contribution is too small!
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We are so thrilled to go on this journey to try and get this film made, and pray that our project inspires you and connects with you. Contributions of any size go such a long way!
