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Thirstygirl

Directed by Alexandra Qin
On a road trip with her younger sister, Charlie struggles to hide a secret addiction.

Alexandra Qin is a French-Filipino-Chinese screenwriter and director with a background in software engineering and prison reform activism. She is the founder of Emergent Works, a nonprofit that teaches formerly incarcerated people to code to help them secure well-paying jobs after prison.Alexandra’s first feature screenplay, THIRSTYGIRL, was the 2022 Page Awards Grand Prize Winner as well as a 2022 Nicholl Fellowship Semifinalist. Her first short film, the THIRSTYGIRL proof-of-concept, is an official selection of Sundance 2024, among many other festivals.

Plays in

Shorts Program IV – Outside the Box

Outside the Box centers on stories that address issues of personal identity and subverting social perceptions and expectations.

Dates & Times

AMC Theater Plaza Bonita, Westfield

October 3, 2024
4:30 pm