FELLOWS
Satellite Fellows 2024
T.L. Quach
FEMALE FILMMAKER UPDATING THE THRILLER LENS
T. L. Quach is a multi-talented Asian American Director and DGA-qualified Assistant Director who focuses on directing Commercial Content and Dramatic Narratives. For commercials, she works with clients from underrepresented backgrounds, allowing them to have a visual voice for their brand and mission. Her commercial with Brewyard Brewery has aired on ESPN, Comedy Central, and CNN.
In her narrative work, she emphasizes themes about women’s fears, striving to diversify and update the Thriller and Drama genres with a Woman of Color lens. She is a Gold House Futures Creator and a member of the Alliance Women Directors. Her short films have screened in various award-winning film festivals including Academy qualifying film festival Visual Communications Film Fest. Her feature length script, CRAVE, has been awarded among numerous screenwriting competitions including Scriptapalooza, ScreenCraft, and Final Draft Big Break and was a Sundance Screenwriters Lab / Asian American Fellowship second round selection.
WOMEN WHO WALK HOME ALONE
GENRE-BENDING MICROSERIES ABOUT THE ANXIETIES OF WALKING HOME
WOMEN WHO WALK HOME ALONE is an experimental, genre-bending microseries about the various stories and anxieties that women may face while walking home alone.
In two minutes or less, from suspenseful thrillers to unexpected comedies, we’ll explore the emotional complexities, realities – and imaginations – of this one, unifying fear that is very real.
The goal of the series is to keep sparking conversation around safety and validate the vast landscape of anxieties that are often overlooked, gaslit, or downplayed. Various issues include: gaslighting, victim-blaming, rape culture, hate crimes, street harassment, misogyny, racism, and much more.
Episodes will be posted on social media to reach audiences directly and through the diverse discussion, we will create empathy, community, and ultimately find ways to make social change.
Follow us @WOMENWHOWALKHOMEALONE on Instagram and Tiktok
CRAVE
A FEATURE FILM CONFRONTING THE BRAINWASHING OF PATRIARCHY AND HIGHLIGHTING THE THREAT OF ASIAN FETISHISM
CRAVE is the first feature length script I wrote that challenges the status quo I’ve been fighting my whole life.
The film is a cautionary tale about a teenager learning about love, her worth, and sexuality in an imprisoned, patriarchal microcosm. I was inspired to write this after taking a class on Domestic Violence Law at UC Berkeley and after watching Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 1991) and Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940). I feel this is an important story to tell as not only are there a lot of social, cultural, and economical factors that contribute to why a woman would stay in an abusive relationship, but also there’s a lot of emotional conditioning that girls and women are taught that lead them in these relationships in the first place.
My goal is to showcase the film like a warning so teenagers and adult women watching can see and reflect these red flags within themselves and their dates/partners. I am putting the horror back into the threat of patriarchy as many mainstream narratives fantasize it. I also am highlighting the dangers of fetishism and validate the real fears that Asian women – and other women of color have. The 2021 Atlanta Spa Shootings wasn’t the only case of fetishism; it’s something that women witness every moment of their lives.
CRAVE has been awarded among numerous screenwriting competitions including Scriptapalooza, ScreenCraft, and Final Draft Big Break and was a Sundance Screenwriters Lab / Asian American Fellowship second round selection.
For more info about collaboration, please email TLQUACHFILMS@gmail.com for pitch materials
