That’s only one part of why watching the film is difficult to watch. I 'm Fine (Thanks For Asking)'s visual tone is one you can feel, the unforgivingly hot sun on a summer day and the addition of a mask. The odds aren't on her side and neither is the weather. Between hair appoints with difficult clients and food delivery runs that lead her to the door of Karen-like customers, she traverses the length and breadth of the city with only her conviction and wit to rely on. Danny sets out on her trusty pair of leopard print roller skates across the streets of COVID-hit Los Angeles completing odd jobs to just enough (she's 200 dollars short) to make the deposit on a deadline. SXSW's narrative feature competition category has its fair share of movies about economic hardships and personal tragedies but none speak to our unprecedented times (lest we forget we're still living through a pandemic) in such piercing detail. While she looks for work to raise money for a security deposit on a new apartment, she has been living in a tent with her young daughter Wes (Wesley Moss) who thinks they have been camping the whole time.Ī surprisingly uplifting film about pandemic struggles. The film is a debut directorial for Kelley Kali and Angelique Molina who put together the COVID-19 pandemic story of a recently widowed single mother named Danny (played by Kelley Kali) who finds herself homeless and jobless. However, capturing our reality through a thought-provoking empathetic lens is necessary, I'm Fine (Thanks for Asking) which premiered at SXSW online is that necessary kind of reminder. Most of us don't need a reminder of how difficult surviving has been in the past year and not to mention the overwhelming loss. What was expected to end after a few weeks of lockdown has turned in almost a year (depending on where you live) of social distancing, self-isolation and everything else that comes with a global pandemic. under the blistering afternoon sun, a story of socio-economic hardships and human resilience plays out. As Danny stakes across the streets of L.A. CT.In ‘I’m Fine (Thanks For Asking), filmmakers Kelley Kali and Angelique Molina create a now-familiar picture about living amidst the global pandemic shot during the pandemic. I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking) premieres online at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival March 17 at 10 a.m. “Even though it’s going to be a journey and it might be tough, it’s going to be OK.” “During this time right now, when everyone might feel lost, we want to give people a sense of hope,” Molina said. It’s also something Molina recognizes now that she was able to complete her first feature film with her friends under unique circumstances. It’s a lesson Danny learns as she struggles to keep a roof over her daughter’s head. When audiences watch the film, Molina and the team want viewers to feel like there are brighter days ahead. “We didn’t want her to have to get on a bus or call and Uber,” Molina said. It was a smart workaround since the character doesn’t have to journey too far as a call-in hair stylist and food delivery app worker. One of the ways they worked around their filmmaking limitations was to write Danny as someone who traveled around town on roller skates. “So, at that point, we decided that the cast would be the crew and the crew would be the cast.

“We didn’t want people to be in confined spaces and didn’t want a lot of people on the set at all,” said Molina, who is Afro-Panamanian. In many scenes, characters are wearing masks and social distancing. With safety a priority, most of the film was shot outdoors.

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