sand mama
An ambivalent mother transforms into a sand creature on a family beach trip.
Surreal yet relatable, when Vera cannot reconcile her pre-motherhood identity with her current roles of wife and mother she makes a startling choice.
Official Selection, Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival 2023 (Academy Award-qualifying)
Official Selection, Indy Shorts International Film Festival 2023 (Academy Award-qualifying)
Official Selection, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2023 (Academy Award-qualifying)
Official Selection, Montclair Film Festival
Official Selection, Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival 2023
Official Selection, Woods Hole Film Festival 2023
Official Selection, Salute Your Shorts Film Festival 2023
Winner, Best Student Short Film, Ocean Coast Film Festival 2023
Nominee, Best International Short Film, TweetFest 2023
Official Selection, Coney Island Film Festival 2023
Official Selection, Dam Short Film Festival 2023
Official Selection, Atlanta Shortsfest 2023
Official Selection, Women’s International Film & Arts Festival 2023
Sélection Officielle, Festival International du Film de Paris 2023
Official Selection, shorTS International Film Festival (Trieste) 2023
Official Selection, Maine International Film Festival 2023
Official Selection, Oxford International Film Festival 2023
Semi-finalist, Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival 2023 (Academy Award-qualifying)
Honorable mention, Blackbird Film Festival 2024
NYFA Made In NY Women’s Fund Award Winner 2019
Short film. 6 min. In festival submission. Email for link.
Written and Directed by Catherine Loerke.
Starring Tony Award winner Miriam Silverman (Broadway: Junk, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Featured Performance); Off-Broadway: Plano, A Delicate Ship, You Got Older, Anatomy of a Suicide; Film: Breaking (John Boyega), Bad Education (Hugh Jackman, Allison Janney); TV: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, NOS4A2, Elementary, The Blacklist, Blue Bloods, Dead Ringers, Fleishman is in Trouble) and Adam Green (Off-Broadway: Metromaniacs, A Walk with Mr. Heifetz, Venus, The Winter’s Tale; TV: The Good Wife, Billions).
Produced by Elise Shin. Cinematography by Nada Stjepanovic. Edited by Lily Klein and Grace Rowe. Sound design by Isaac Jones. Score composed by David Wittman.
Intro by Pedro Pascal
Friend to the production and all of the internet, Pedro Pascal, star of The Last of Us and The Mandalorian (and former guest star on eternal classic Buffy the Vampire Slayer), demands that you watch Sand Mama.
Sand Mama Teaser
Miriam for Cinejoy 2023
Miriam Silverman, our brilliant lead, discusses her love for Sand Mama and her recent Tony winning role in Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window on Broadway and at BAM. Sand Mama is an Official Selection of Cinequest Film Festival 2023.