MASKS

Heavily inspired by the Orlando nightclub shooting, the writer/director, who is also a mass shooting survivor and a lesbian, made her MFA thesis film about a closeted medical student named Saba, who risks being outed to her family when she is targeted in a mass shooting at a gay nightclub.

CREDITS
Director, Writer: Mahaliyah Ayla O
Producer: Mahaliyah Ayla O, Vita Amore
Co-Producer: Janice Duncan
Director of Photography: Ayinde Anderson
Editor: Steven Markowitz
1st Assistant Director: Sherry Y. Shi
Sound Designer: Charles Moody
Production Designer: Erin Lunsford
Original Music: Jongnic Bontemps
Line Producer: Mayra Cardona

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