Michelle's Filmmaking Reel is Demolicious
All the Leaving
I was tricked by memory into believing that life is a river of sorrows. Now I know, after committing memory to page, that it doesn't occupy our minds so much as our hearts. It’s less about what happened, or if it happened at all than it is about what our hearts can endure. ––Tulsa
All the Leaving was translated into Spanish and in bookstores throughout Mexico City, as well as at the Mexico City International Airport.
2021 Nominee––Best Original Feature Screenplay––Paris Film Festival
My Unknown Avenger
In Seattle, right before a globalized digital economy devoured the old world and grunge took its last gasps before falling off with the rest of the 20th century, Mona is raped and urinated on by a man she knows.
Her friends take vengeance by violating and humiliating Mona's rapist then blowing up a photo of his humiliation on a poster reading - Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor (May you arise from my bones, my unknown avenger. ––Virgil) that they put up around town. When a rash of copycat posters all over Seattle follows, it gets the attention of national news and the FBI.