Still Life is a coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama about a 15-year-old girl, Dafne, who is about to lose her mother to leukemia. Set in the San Francisco Bay Area, it tracks Dafne across a critical turning point in her life: the final months of 1999, which are also the final months before her mother dies. Part love letter to the Bay Area in the late ‘90s, the film draws a portrait of what it is like to be living on the brink–in a time between centuries; between childhood and adulthood; between the time when a loved one is alive and dead. It also offers a meditation on what it is like to try to proceed with one’s daily life in the face of a loved one’s imminent death.

Shot on location in the Bay Area this summer, with a local crew (including folks who have worked on films such as Fremont, Dìdi, and The Diary of a Teenage Girl) the independent film features FBP Veteran Anika Jensen as Dafne and FBP Actors Karin Jensen and Aaron Bruce in supporting roles. For more information on the film and how to support it, visit the Still Life website.