Off Day

When a child is left at home for a day, anxiety mounts.

  • Caitlyn Johnson
    Director
  • Caitlyn Johnson
    Writer
  • Caitlyn Johnson
    Producer
  • Lia Fitzgerald
    Key Cast
    "Naima"
  • Tassia Fitzgerald
    Key Cast
    "Mom"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 9 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 11, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    1,157 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Caitlyn Johnson

Caitlyn Johnson (CJ) is an award-winning director and is currently an MFA candidate at NYU’s Kanbar Film Institute. CJ’s work is rooted in providing outlets for marginalized and underserved communities to produce their own stories through independent filmmaking. Her background includes videography, development, documentary, and film festival programming concentrated in interdisciplinary and radical storytelling. In 2018, CJ co-created and directed the highly acclaimed web series, Seeds (OTV), which follows four Black young women while navigating relationships, politics and sex through their friendship and conversation. CJ’s latest project, THOTless (OTV) also interrogates those same themes as they pertain to other queer and marginalized identities.

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Director Statement

This MOS project is the first I have completed at NYU's graduate film program. It also the first project I completed in a global pandemic, which becomes evident as a young girl looks outwardly to help inspire her while trapped indoors. The story attempts to address this and the anxieties that plague us when we're alone.