Life is Like a Play
After losing their childhood best friend, a teen learns that moving on doesn’t have to mean forgetting.
Olivia Carter is an award-winning Student Filmmaker who attends the University of Texas at Austin studying Radio-Television-Film. Her films have been screened at film festivals worldwide winning awards such as best storyteller and best emerging filmmaker. Olivia has also won grand prizes for her promotional films at SweeTarts Film Festival (2022) and Reel in the Votes Film Festival (2018) which was judged by Richard Linklater and Robert Rodriguez.
A big passion of mine is creating a space for queer and mental health representation in media. In this film I strived to depict what my anxiety means to me and create a narrative where having queer representation in film does not have to be just in coming out stories. Even though this film deals with ideas about grief and mourning for somebody you loved, it also in a way is my anxieties in a different context. The feeling of thinking you’ve lost a part of yourself when really it’s still there, just in a different way. I really hope you enjoy.