"おかえり" (Okaeri), an Emerson Thesis Film by student Seneca Schwartz, is looking for female Japanese actors.
This film follows Juna, a thirty-year-old half-Japanese woman suffering a midlife slump, who visits her hometown for the first time in ten years to celebrate the Japanese New Year with her mother. Flying in three days prior to January 1st, she arrives at her childhood home and begins to reconcile with the parts of herself that she’s left behind. After spending one night in her childhood bedroom, she wakes up to see her sixteen-year-old self at the foot of her bed.
The film is about the loss and preservation of identity, and remembering the younger version of ourselves as we grow old.
The film's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/okaeri.film
Seneca Schwartz's Instagram where direct messages can be sent: https://www.instagram.com/seneca.mov/
The film's linktree page: https://linktr.ee/okaeri.film.ba
Header and graphic by Seneca Schwartz