Retrieval

CREW
Producer - Fatimah Asghar, Jordan Phelps, Natalie Jasmine Harris, Jess Snow, Jamila Woods, Vincent Martell

Co-Producers: Bisha Ali, Mohammed Fakhro, Danez Smith, Sonya Passi and Chani Nicholas, Hanif Abdurraqib, Khudejha Asghar, Amy Sewick

Director of Photography - Jess Snow
Assistant Director - Jamila Woods
Lead Camera - Nate Brown
1st AC - Elo Santa Maria
Gaffer - Frisly Soberanis
Key Grip - Sarah Alli
Script Supervisor - Khalea Ross Robinson
Production Designer - Rhea D’Souza
Costume Designer - Sueann Leung
Makeup Artist - Randy Rosenthal
Hair Stylist - Danielle Waugh
Production Sound - PJ Wyderka
Intimacy Coordinator - Alexandra Tydings
Editor + Post Sound Design - Jordan Phelps
BTS Photographer - Mengwen Cao
On-Set Healer - Naika Apeakorang
On-Set Sound Medidation - Joshua Dorfman

Music Consultant: Arshia Haq
Music: Slowspin & Kelsey Lu
BTS Photographer: Mengwen Cao
Title Animation: Elena Scott
Graphic Design: Elena Scott
Color: Ntropic
Colorist: Ayumi Ashley
VFX: Arcanum Post
VFX Artist: Josh Kane
Compositing: Josh Kane
3-D Pre-Imaging: Andrew Dembling 
Sound Design: Jordan Phelps

CAST
Woman In Red and Younger Self - Fatimah Asghar
Body Double - Génesis Mancheren Abaj

With Support from the ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND (ISF) Grant - 2021
and Sundance Uprise Grant- 2021
and Fundraising our communities through FRACTURED ATLAS and KICKSTARTER

RETRIEVAL is a lyrical short film that explores the process of a soul retrieval in the aftermath of sexual assault - the spiritual undertaking of bringing back a part of your soul that has been traumatically separated.

Holding the line between magic, fantasy, and grounded reality, the film asks the question: what sight of miraculous intervention do we need to conduct to seam together such a violent rupture?

written, directed and starring FATIMAH ASGHAR | Coming 2022