When an Elizabethan boy player loses his only access to gender liberation, a choice arises: sink into despair, or awaken to beauty in an unexpected world.
Queerness, transness, and gender expression are all terms and frameworks we are familiar with today, but they did not exist until very recently. Even though these experiences have been present throughout human history, we have barely any record of them. In Elizabethan and Jacobean England, theatrical companies scouted young boys, often prepubescent, to play female roles, referred to as "Boy Players." For many of these boys, playing female roles was a temporary phase, ending with puberty. As their voices deepened and their bodies changed, they were often transitioned into male roles or left the world of Theatre. This shift was typically treated as a normal progression, even a rite of passage. However, for some of these performers, portraying a woman was more than just a role; it became a source of identity, expression, and liberation. They found something in female roles that resonated deeply with their internal sense of self. A Boy in Rouge follows Arthur, a passionate boy player who experiences gender not as a rigid binary but as something performed, inhabited, and felt. When he is told he has outgrown the female roles, he loses his only outlet to gender euphoria, forcing him to find new expression amidst a confounding, heart-wrenching crisis.
A Boy in Rouge was selected as one of the four senior thesis films at California State Northridge. The production earned me a spot as a Golden Globe Fellow and it will make its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival 2026.
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On an isolated farm inherited from her father, a lonely woman upgrades her A.I. companion, but a preventable malfunction turns comfort into terror.
I’ve run every possible scenario and you survive in none, but A+ for effort! Your surrender has been noted and appreciated.
CSUN Film Application Photo Series
The portfolio process included many steps, such as an essay, video introduction, and photo series in which we had to showcase a character with a moral dilemma. I knew I wanted to do a period piece as that is what I do best, and I have long been fascinated with the history of sisterhood and/or female monks. If you don't know, starting as early as 1400, women would be sent to convents if they were rebellious, poor, pregnant, if they refused to marry, or if they were queer. While this was prevalent centuries ago, it still happens today.
Three suitors vie for the hand of a mysterious noblewoman, only to be stalked and picked off by their vampiric host.
When a series of unfortunate accidents occur on set, a student film crew begins to fear a real killer is amongst them.
Inspired off the bone chilling experiences from film school during randomized group projects. A fun poke at film kids and our quirks that could be the death of us! All of the actors were also key crew to add an interesting challenge.
A lonely trad goth student and an elderly hard-of-hearing clown try to connect with the world around them but are left wondering whether they will ever be truly seen.
You never know how your actions, big or small, can change someone’s day.
