LIN, TSUNG-YEN 林宗諺作品

“EMILY”
Length: 15:00
Director/Producer/ Editor: Athena Gerasoulis
Cinematographer: Tsung-Yen Lin
Sound Designers: Elias Rivera

Synopsis: 
After a troubled childhood spent watching the steady decline of her mother’s psychological state due to the onset of postpartum depression, Emily Fontaine–well-educated, employed, and untouched by the characteristics that mark the typical cinematic portrayals of unplanned pregnancies–makes the decision to terminate her pregnancy and begin the process of qualifying for an early-term medication abortion. The film “Emily” presents a realistic depiction of the decision to postpone parenthood due to the difficult truth regarding the aftereffects of parenting with mental illness, a personal experience that Emily refuses to further repeat. We take a fully unobstructed look into the steps of obtaining an abortion from start to finish, the painstaking process of medical approval, physical observation, and the investigation of challenging personal topics that Emily must face to a nurse she has just met–all of which determine whether or not she is given a procedure, a decision that will change the course of her future. Follow Emily in the unfiltered journey of an experience that forces many women all over the world to face the quiet brutality of emotional, physical, and medical trauma in the plight to seek bodily autonomy for reasons more complex than we can ever understand.