Mrs. Drake
Dramatic + Documentary Shorts II
Milwaukee Shorts Film Festival, Best Narrative Short, Best Actress, Best Director
Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema, Best Narrative Short, Best Actress
FLORIDA PREMIERE
Overworked and over-stressed, Laura is a single mother struggling to maintain her own equilibrium while raising her frequently difficult son Jack.
When Jack comes home from school one day with a story of his teacher, Mrs. Drake, locking him in a closet, Laura is thrown into a spiral of confusion and guilt—not knowing what to believe or where her responsibility lies.
“Mrs. Drake” is a story about blame, uncertainty, and the complexities of a flawed mother as she wrestles with her responsibilities as a parent. In the face of so many myths and fantasies about what society tells us it means to be a perfect mother, this film is a meditation on the complexities of motherhood and the sense of failure that many women feel, but are afraid to articulate.
