While grieving her late grandmother's death, a woman discovers her hidden origins and journeys into another world.
Eloise Fitzgerald doesn’t fit in. Not even a little. Not even in her dreams. More at home in fairytales than in reality, Eloise avoids the outside world, only spending time at work, in a flower shop or at home with her only friend, her grandmother. When her grandmother passes away, Eloise is lost. She follows a trail of clues her grandmother left behind, seeking to discover the true reason why she never feels like such a misfit. Upon finding an old book belonging to her grandmother, Eloise seizes the idea that she is a changeling from the faerie and embarks on a quest to find the portal "home." Eloise’s magical search takes her all over the sites of New York City, but before she can do that, she mourns in style, hiding out at the iconic Chelsea Hotel.
Christine Vartoughian is an award-winning, Armenian-American writer and director whose work has shown at Lincoln Center, Museum of the Moving Image, and whose feature film about love and suicide, Living with the Dead: A Love Story, has been awarded the Audience Choice Award at The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Best Feature Film at Aberdeen Film Festival, and is available on Apple TV and Amazon, in the U.S. and internationally. Her screenplay, The Great Perhaps, is an adaptation of the Joe Meno novel, which was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, and has been a part of film festivals and script competitions.
Christine founded (Screen)Play Press, a publishing company for yet-to-be-produced film scripts. Her feature script, Young Monsters, was published in 2022 and her short fiction has been published in The Bookends Review, Quibble Lit, 805 Lit + Art, Open: A Journal of Arts and Letters, and Audience Askew. Her debut collection of short stories is set to be published in 2025. She lives in New York City.
Stowe Story Labs Short Film Production Grant 2024 - Semifinalist
Actress - Sonja O'Hara
Creative Consultant - Paul Rachman
