Kristine Gerolaga
MOSQUITO LADY
NICE SHOES Post production (color) Grant
About the project: Terrified of telling her parents that she's pregnant as restrictions to abortion access worsen, a desperate teenager seeks the help of a reclusive neighbor who her parents warned her about. Mosquito Lady is about the terrifying state of reproductive rights and the horrors of losing bodily autonomy.
About the filmmaker: Kristine Gerolaga is a Filipina American filmmaker and actor. She currently resides in Los Angeles where she writes and directs genre films, drama, and a ton of sketch comedy (but honestly, she loves it all) with her longtime filmmaking collaborator, Steven Krimmel. Her work was featured by The United Nations Population Fund, WhoHaha, TIFFxInstagram Shorts Fest, NYXHorror’s #13MinutesOfHorror, ATTN, Amazon Fire TV, ALTER, Shudder, and Vulture. She is a grant recipient of The Future of Film is Female and a 2022 Sundance Institute Uprise Grantee.