The Things We Carry

(USA, 2009, 77 mins, digital video)

Wisconsin Premiere

writer: Alyssa Lobit
director of photography: Gavin Kelly
editor: Maureen Meulen
composer: Timo Chen
production designer: Danielle Osborne
costume designers: Jennifer Standley, Jayme Bohn
producer: Athena Lobit, Jessica Schatz
co-producer: Camille Mana, Melissa Davis
cast: Alyssa Lobit, Alexis Rhee, Catherine Kresge, Johnny Whitworth, Daniel Zacapa, Ilene Graff

After backpacking through Southeast Asia for a few years, Emmie returns to Los Angeles. Her free-spirited, drug-addicted mother has died, and left something behind for Emmie. The clues she’s following start with a letter from a family friend, and lead her to Best Motel, the dingy den in the San Fernando Valley that Sunny last called home. Tracking down a junkie is easier said than done, and along the way Emmie gets help from people who knew her mother. It’s Emmie’s sister Eve, though, that forms the core of this story. The two young women have steadily drifted apart, as Eve remained committed to caring for their playful but damaged mother. Emmie had turned her back on everything, escaping from that family confinement for the expat life abroad. All sisters have some things in common, and now they only have each other, and the search for the mysterious package leads them together into a better understanding. The Things We Carry is a personal story, reflecting the work of producer Athena Lobit and writer/actor Alyssa Lobit.

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