RE-ENTRY
Short Film | Sci-Fi, Drama, LGBTQIA+ | 2024
Alfred P. Sloan Production Grant Recipient 2023
Official Selections [Still in Festival Circuit] : Inside Out Film Festival 2024, OUT ON FILM Atlanta 2024, Sidewalk Film Festival 2024, SCAD Savannah Film Festival 2024, AFI FEST 2024, Stamped Film Festival 2024, 33rd Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival
Logline: 35 years ago, Maya Redding, a male-presenting NASA engineer, along with her best friend George, launched a satellite that got lost in the wrong orbit, forcing Maya to leave NASA in shame. In the years since, Maya came out as transgender, and re-discovered the satellite. Haunted by her past, Will Maya bring the satellite’s data back to NASA, return to her former life, and course-correct? Or will she let her past burn, like the satellite’s re-entry in the Earth’s atmosphere?
Producer: Ilayda Cetinkaya
Writers: Ariel Mahler, Kunal Sengupta, Nicky Schmid
Director: Ariel Mahler
Cinematographer: Maryn McGaw
Production Designer: Sarah Dawn Hamlin
Editor: Victoria Villig
Composer: Joanna Karselis





