THE THINGS I LEAVE BEHIND

On the night of October 9th, 2017, my mom escaped a wildfire that destroyed our home and all we had. I can still clearly recall her voice on the phone the next morning, “Our home is gone. Everything is gone.” My childhood erased in a night.

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And so my mother tells her story: winds hitting the house like battering rams, the night sky a wall of orange smoke, and the singular knowing that she must leave.

 

THE THINGS I LEAVE BEHIND is about a young girl named HAILEY, facing a great “Before & After” – those moments so sharp they cut your life in two.

 

Making this film was an unspeakable gift in my life. It came to me in my year of sudden, tragic grief, and somehow turned that feeling into the root of the magic that everyone decided to believe in. It was powerful, and I hope we held open a bottle and caught some of that feeling.