Featured Project // Messania’s Story
“Timely, brilliant and unforgettable. A chronicle of discovery and personal growth in a hostile world.”
About the Film
Documentary Short, Drama, 20 min.
Messania’s Story recently entered the film festival circuit and received and official selection at both the Academy qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF), HollyShorts Film Festival and the St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF). It went on to take the Grand Prize at RIIFF, making an official contender for a 2021 Academy Awards nomination in the documentary short category. We are just at the beginning of our festival journey and couldn’t be more ecstatic for the warm reception of the film thus far.
SYNOPSIS
A childhood filled with laughter and friends, singing and games—cut short by the circumciser’s knife.
Growing up, Messania walked the same path as many young girls from Africa; undergoing female genital mutilation to make her marriageable to a stranger many years older than herself. From her Kenya home, Messania tells the story of a woman who found the determination to escape abuse, challenge harmful cultural norms, and sing a new song of freedom for herself and others.
Learn more at www.messaniafilm.com
“The creative adult is the child who survived.”
Creative Reel
Other News
Upcoming short.
SYNOPSIS // While awaiting the results of his mothers visa renewal request, a teenage boy from Texas is confronted by the memories that he so desperately wanted to leave behind in Uganda.
Learn about the film at thenightileft.com
The Skeleton Flower
Family, Animated Fantasy, 1 Hour.
This pilot episode script is currently a semi-finalist in the ScreenCraft Animation Screenplay Competition. The story follows the misadventures of a little girl from the slums of India who, with the help of a little mouse and a bit of magic, is given the rare opportunity to forge a way out of the caste that she was born into.
Written Work
For more screenwriting samples, please request at hello@lakikaravias.com.
Big World
Audio Theatre
What began as a bit of silliness, quickly became something much more magical than we could have ever imagined.