Your mentor, your best friend, and your own secrets—justice was never this personal.
Fresh off a winning case that brought her unwanted internet fame, a rising ADA learns of the district's most respected judge allegedly assaulting her best friend. She starts a case but is surprised to be met with resistance by the district attorney who mentored her, her best friend who questions the system and her motives, and the judge himself who knows her own dark secret.
Acting
Kally Khourshid carries impossible emotional weight in every frame.
Writing
Economy of dialogue that trusts silence to devastate.
Director
Michael Vaughn Hernandez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Michael Vaughn Hernandez made this as his thesis film at USC, shooting the entire courthouse sequence in a single day on a donated location.
The film deliberately never shows the assault, forcing audiences to confront whose testimony they instinctively believe—mirroring how real courts fail survivors.
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