A driven high school sophomore obsessively studies Spanish all year so she can test up a level into her crush’s class. 

Director Biography - Nicholas Luciano

Nicholas is a Los Angeles based filmmaker from Eastern PA - he received his B.A. in Film and Video at Penn State where he screened his comedy short "Mad About Saffron" at the Penn State Student Film Festival. His short "Lunch Tattoo", co-written with Kimia Behpoornia, toured festivals in 2023 and was an official selection of Dances With Films LA, DC Shorts and is currently available to watch on Omeleto. Nick has written on house sketch comedy teams and produced many live shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in LA. Videos he's made with his 73 year-old father reenacting video game emotes from Super Smash Bros, Street Fighter and Overwatch have been featured in GQ, Mashable, Huffington Post and NowThis News. Nick also volunteers as a mentor at Young Storytellers, a non-profit that teaches 5th graders how to write a 5-page screenplay that gets performed by professional actors on stage at their school.

Director Statement

When Joy approached me to direct Te Seguiré a la Oscuridad, I was drawn to the fun, stylized, visual tone of the script. As a teen who lived through the late 90s / early 2000s, it was a wonderfully ambitious challenge bringing the year 2005 to life through the use of practical props and wardrobe, as well as creating new music of the era in an effort to authentically take you back to that time. I also could relate to a character who spends a year obsessively studying for a crush. In fact, one time I read a 1000-page book for a crush and didn't talk to them about it (please don't ask me which cringey book it was)

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