EVERYTHING MUST GO is a comedy short filmed in realtime as a cis/trans lesbian couple gets married, gets rid of their stuff, sells their house and flees the US to escape anti-trans legislation.
In November of 2024, Trump won the presidential election on $200 million in anti-trans ads and promised to eliminate trans identities "on day one." My partner and I watched the news, read Project 2025 and decided to leave the country. All we had to do was get married, sell as much as we could, give away the rest, say goodbye to our friends, and run. So, of course, we decided to make a short film about it, while it was all happening. We filmed our wedding. We filmed the reception. We enlisted friends and family as our cast, and our regular collaborators as crew. The result is EVERYTHING MUST GO, a romantic comedy short and time capsule about the strange, scary unknown that was pre-inauguration queer life in 2025.
I’m a trans-femme, Puerto Rico-born anglo, raised in Texas and living and working in Los Angeles. I have a BFA in Film, Animation and Video from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Directing from UCLA. Since receiving my MFA, I’ve worked primarily as a producer of films and series like Hulu’s 69: The Saga of Danny Hernadez, Starz’ Half the Picture, MTV’s anniversary reboot of the animated series Liquid TV, and the Craig Brewer/Lynn Shelton MTV series $5 Cover. Throughout my career I’ve also directed my own work, including music videos for Capitol Records and Innovative Leisure, the NYTVF official selection animated pilot B.F.E., the short film I’m an Expert Haggler at Garage Sales, written by NY Times Bestselling Author Jory John and starring Corporate’s Matt Ingebretson, the 2022 SXSW short comedy Gay Haircut, and the 2023 SXSW short comedy Funny Face. I'm a member of the 2024-2025 Sony Pictures Television Diversity Director Cohort. I am a proud parent of two brilliant, kind kids, a partner to a hilarious comic/writer/retired circus performer, and a dog mom to a gloriously asymmetrical Husky/goblin mix rescue.
