Abernathy

All skeletons have been let out of the closet after Penelope's mother's death. Her dad struggles with keeping her lost brother a secret for her own safety, but on her mother's birthday Simon gets deadly close to her lost sister.

  • Andrea Batista
    Director
  • Maya Baskin
    Writer
  • K. Foster Mellot
    Producer
  • Carly Kaderli
    Camera Operator
  • Molly Stewart
    Art Director
  • Maya Baskin
    Sound
  • Maya Baskin
    Editing
  • Molly Stewart
    Editing
  • Andrea Batista
    Editing
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Suspense, Drama, Thriller
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Virginia Commonwealth University
Director Biography - Andrea Batista

Andrea Batista is a film director based in Richmond, Virginia. She was born in Panama, where she lived before moving to Miami, FL in 2014. She is currently a senior in the VCUarts Cinema program, soon to finally graduate. Her artistic strengths are in the art department, she mostly drawn towards anything under Production Design.

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Director Statement

My best friend Maya Baskin actually wrote this short film and I thought it’d be a great idea to direct and collab with her. The idea is inspired from all the ‘lack’ of drama going on in our lives, therefore as director I though the film should convey some of that and that mainly we should just have fun while making it because we deserve it after this horrible pandemic. Abernathy is a suspenseful short film made by two really bored girls who took the opportunity.