After a recent eviction, Desi—a pregnant single mother of two— fights to rebuild her life while battling a broken system that fails to provide the help she desperately needs for her family to survive.
A pregnant mother, grieving the loss of her partner and facing eviction, fights to keep her children safe as they spiral into homelessness—forcing her to confront a brutal system that turns its back on the desperate, leading to a tragic end or a last glimmer of hope through an unexpected act of kindness.
Danielle Eliska is an award-winning screenwriter, film director, photographer, entrepreneur and educator from Detroit. She’s a co-creator of an experimental art community, A LOVE LETTER TO DETROIT.
Danielle received her MFA in Dramatic Writing in Film from New York University, has gained notable screenwriting, film and photography recognition. Her film and photography work has been widely exhibited, including at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Flint Institute of Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit [MOCAD], The Scarab Club, Galerie Camille, Reyes | Finn Gallery, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Los Angeles Center of Digital Art, Soho Photo Gallery, Rush Philanthropic Arts, Field Projects Gallery, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Baxter St. The Camera Club NY, Detroit Artists Market and more. Her first solo exhibition opened at Central Michigan University’s Baber Gallery in 2023. Danielle has freelanced photography for VICE, Brooklyn Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Danielle was one of the inaugural grant recipients of the 2019 Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and New York Foundation for the Arts [MOME NYFA] ‘Made in NY’ Women’s Fund in Film for her short narrative film, Shield [Digital Press Kit]. She was a 2022 Womxnhouse Detroit Resident, a 2022 Sesame Street Workshop Writer’s Room Fellow, a 2023 CultureSource + Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Flourish Fund grant recipient and a 2023 Cranbrook Academy of Art Photography Department Artist-in-Residence. Danielle is a 2024 - 2026 Seed and Bloom: Detroit Fellow.
