Emma Rae

-accepted into the Cannes Film Festival – screened in 2018

Film score by adam chavez

Emma Rae illuminates the often dark and turbulent waters, many teens must navigate in the over saturated and unforgiving age of social media.

From the Director Allen Sowelle:

We hurt.  Ourselves and each other.  When I was young, if kids wanted to tease or bully you they either wrote notes, started whisper campaigns, or confronted you at lunch or in gym class.  The bullying seldom went beyond the extent of mere words.  Sticks and stones, but words could never...

But in today's generation, words have become weaponized.  Social media allows kids to hurls insults, lies, and harassment instantaneously.   Kids can be widely ridiculed, even sexually exploited with the touch of a send button.

Not only are teens over-sharing their exploits about sex and hate, they are also normalizing drug and alcohol use without deeper understanding of the consequences.  

Add in abandonment, the discarded nature of a society, fiending for instant gratification where everything is replaceable - you get Emma Rae. You get the story of a girl in the foster care system, who is pushed and pushed, until one day... she pushes back.