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RE-ENTRY 

Short Film | Sci-Fi, Drama | 2024
 

Alfred P. Sloan Production Grant Recipient 2023 ($25,000)
SCAD Savannah Film Festival 2024, Amazon MGM Studios Best LGBTQ+ Short Award ($5,000)


Official Selections [ 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, Utah Film Festival 2024

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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

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