Logline and Genres:

Synopsis:

On the night of Earth Hour, twenty-year-old Lora begins hearing the forest beyond her family’s home calling to her. As strange masked figures emerge from the woods in silent ritual, a birthday dinner unearths a long-buried truth: Lora once had an identical twin sister named Luna, whose absence still quietly fractures the family years later.

Drawn toward the mysterious “Forestians,” Lora follows them deeper into the wilderness, where fragments of memory, grief, and childhood begin surfacing through their ghostly movements and haunting rituals. The closer she gets to these beings, the more the boundary between the living, the lost, and the remembered starts to dissolve.

In a world where nature carries echoes of the past, Soul Blind explores mourning, identity, and the invisible ways love survives after loss. But as Lora searches for who, or what, these masked figures truly are, one question lingers beneath the trees: what it takes and what it means to reconnect with life and nature when you're not feeling fully inside it anymore.

Story Themes:

Why This Story / Why Now:

We believe “Soul Blind” speaks deeply to a growing emotional reality experienced by many young people today: disconnection from family, community, nature, and even from ourselves. In a world increasingly shaped by isolation, overstimulation, ecological anxiety, and emotional burnout, the film asks what it means to truly feel present and alive again.

Through the spiritual coexistence, we hope to create a story that approaches grief, numbness, and human connection with tenderness rather than fear. At a time when many people struggle to articulate loneliness and emotional detachment, “Soul Blind” offers a quiet space to reflect on perception, memory, and the invisible relationships that continue shaping our lives.

Why Us:

As young Asian female independent filmmakers, we are deeply interested in telling intimate stories that exist between the spiritual and the ordinary. Our cultural backgrounds and personal experiences have shaped the way we think about ancestry, family silence, emotional restraint, and coexistence with the unseen world. Rather than approaching magical realism through spectacle, we want to ground it in sensory detail, everyday spaces, and emotionally honest performances.

“Soul Blind” reflects the kinds of stories we rarely see represented with care onscreen: quiet, atmospheric, female-centered narratives that explore emotional interiority, ecological spirituality, and complicated familial love through an independent cinematic voice.

The Inspirations/References:

Top left to right: Petite Maman, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.

Bottom left to right: Sentimental Value, Yi Yi

The Masked "Forestians":

Character Breakdown:

Lora (Female lead, Daughter)

Mia (Female supporting, Mother)

Steven (Male supporting, Father)

More Snippets from Director's Lookbook:

Core Elements

The Cinematic Look

Previous Location Scout Footages

Budget Breakdown

Total Cost: $5500

We are hoping to raise $2000 through Seed & Spark for the production and post-production stages of this project. We are required to raise 80% of the goal to receive any funds, so please pledge, follow and share this campaign! Any kind of help HELPS.

Timeline

Production dates will be June 28-30th.

Post-production will be in the fall, roughly from July to October.

Festival circuit will be in mid-fall, early next spring.

Where to Reach

Follow our official Instagram account @soulblind.film.

Crew, cast, BTS, all the fun and games will be posted here!

https://www.instagram.com/soulblind.film/

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