An experimental storytelling of a young woman’s erratic teenage years as a runaway. Based on the life of the filmmaker’s foster sister, the film blends stylized narrative and documentary elements in a story of anger, isolation, disconnection and redemption.

Selena Burks’s first film, Saving Jackie, a documentary portrait of her mother’s spiral out of crack-cocaine dependence, premiered at Sundance 2005. The film has screened at several film festivals worldwide as well as foster parent and case worker training classes in the U.S.. Her recent documentary True Body Project premiered at the Cleveland International Film Festival in 2006. She is working as a Production Associate on a one-hour PBS documentary entitled The New Metropolis: America’s First Suburbs.

BFA Motion Picture Production, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio