MIRROR TALKS - A DOCUMENTARY FILM ON IDENTITY AND ACCEPTANCE
Nominated for National Youth Film Awards (NYFA) for Best Camera Work
The girl who hated her reflection but grew to love it
She loves to dance but she has always felt that her DNA dictates that she cannot be a great ballet dancer, that she cannot compare with the other girls who happen to fit into the cookie cutter shape of a ballet dancer. Growing up, she went through seasons after seasons of self doubt, with the mirror as her nemesis. She stood in front of it and scrutinized every inch and pore of her body - the way she looked, every movement she performed - mercilessly comparing herself to the 17 other girls who always seemed to graze ahead of her.
Not before long, she started to avoid the mirror, and intentionally avoiding her reflection.
The next time she chanced upon her reflection, she was met with a strange unfamiliarity, a frightening foreign feeling that surged through her mind as she wondered who that girl behind the tinted mirror was.
Absurd but radical, she sat herself in front of the mirror, and began to speak to the broken girl in the mirror, as a friend.
