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Evelyn lives in LA- she owns her own company, has a kid, a husband, nice cars and house... Everything should be perfect but it's not. We meet her as she's turning her phone off and escaping into the desert without telling a soul. Looking to shut herself off for a day, instead, she is confronted with three different women in whom she sees aspects of herself... What she could’ve been, or could be. She has to face her own choices and desires and, ultimately, decide how to go on.
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Someday It Is by Carissa Gallo
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"Over the course of a few months, I found myself in conversations with different women saying similar things about the feeling of who they were inside being deeply buried by projection, or what was required of them. These were women who appeared perfectly put together from the outside, there were no signs of internal chaos. This is a feeling I’m keenly familiar with, so this story emerged as a way to make sense of these feelings. I was thinking about the way we work very hard to create the life we want, but there is always the matter of change and self-realization and maybe, at some point, you wonder if you want all the things you used to want, even after you have them.
The story took shape around a woman who, by most external measures, has built a good life: she has stability, a job, a home, a family. And yet she finds herself standing inside that life with a growing sense of estrangement, quietly testing its edges. It’s less about destruction than confrontation—about what happens when you acknowledge that fulfillment doesn’t always arrive the way you imagined it would. She is, in a sense, pouring gasoline over everything she’s built, not because she wants to watch it burn, but because she needs to know whether she’s brave enough to strike the match, or if choosing not to is its own kind of decision."
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// Credits //
Writer/ Director: Carissa Gallo
Starring: Jodi Balfour Philip Ettinger Lexee Smith Valentino Gallo, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Valor Hirsch, Karissa Smiley
Production Company: Someday Studio
Executive Producer: Andrew Gallo
Executive Producer: Wyatt Whitaker
Director of Photography: Marz Miller
Production Designer: Ava Villafane
Costume Designer: Katie Woringer
Key Hair & Makeup Artist: Alix Youngbloof
Production Manager: Bri Plewma
First Assistant Camera: Emily Amos
Second Assistant Camera: Bobby Pavlovsky
Loader: Sergio Platero
Gaffer: Nick Durr
Key Grip: Wadsworth Peters
Lead Man: Benjamin Minty
Set Decorator: Alexsandra Papoban
Art PA: Katie DiFiore, Allegra Peyton
Sound Mixer: Gabriel Fregoso
Sound Mixer: Kevin Bazell
Editor: Carissa Gallo
Sound Design and Mix: Bleue
Colorist: Kaitlyn Battistelli at Ethos Studio
Title Design: Aaron Becker
Music for Trailer: Michael A. Muller
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Evelyn lives in LA- she owns her own company, has a kid, a husband, nice cars and house... Everything should be perfect but it's not. We meet her as she's turning her phone off and escaping into the desert without telling a soul. Looking to shut herself off for a day, instead, she is confronted with three different women in whom she sees aspects of herself... What she could’ve been, or could be. She has to face her own choices and desires and, ultimately, decide how to go on.
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Someday It Is by Carissa Gallo
carissagallo.com
"Over the course of a few months, I found myself in conversations with different women saying similar things about the feeling of who they were inside being deeply buried by projection, or what was required of them. These were women who appeared perfectly put together from the outside, there were no signs of internal chaos. This is a feeling I’m keenly familiar with, so this story emerged as a way to make sense of these feelings. I was thinking about the way we work very hard to create the life we want, but there is always the matter of change and self-realization and maybe, at some point, you wonder if you want all the things you used to want, even after you have them.
The story took shape around a woman who, by most external measures, has built a good life: she has stability, a job, a home, a family. And yet she finds herself standing inside that life with a growing sense of estrangement, quietly testing its edges. It’s less about destruction than confrontation—about what happens when you acknowledge that fulfillment doesn’t always arrive the way you imagined it would. She is, in a sense, pouring gasoline over everything she’s built, not because she wants to watch it burn, but because she needs to know whether she’s brave enough to strike the match, or if choosing not to is its own kind of decision."
🎙️ Dive deeper into the making of Someday It Is with our exclusive interview with writer/director Carissa Gallo
directorsnotes.com/2026/03/05/carissa-gallo-someday-it-is
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Newsletter: directorsnotes.beehiiv.com/subscribe
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// Credits //
Writer/ Director: Carissa Gallo
Starring: Jodi Balfour Philip Ettinger Lexee Smith Valentino Gallo, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Valor Hirsch, Karissa Smiley
Production Company: Someday Studio
Executive Producer: Andrew Gallo
Executive Producer: Wyatt Whitaker
Director of Photography: Marz Miller
Production Designer: Ava Villafane
Costume Designer: Katie Woringer
Key Hair & Makeup Artist: Alix Youngbloof
Production Manager: Bri Plewma
First Assistant Camera: Emily Amos
Second Assistant Camera: Bobby Pavlovsky
Loader: Sergio Platero
Gaffer: Nick Durr
Key Grip: Wadsworth Peters
Lead Man: Benjamin Minty
Set Decorator: Alexsandra Papoban
Art PA: Katie DiFiore, Allegra Peyton
Sound Mixer: Gabriel Fregoso
Sound Mixer: Kevin Bazell
Editor: Carissa Gallo
Sound Design and Mix: Bleue
Colorist: Kaitlyn Battistelli at Ethos Studio
Title Design: Aaron Becker
Music for Trailer: Michael A. Muller
ABOUT DIRECTORS NOTES
Since 2006 Directors Notes has curated the world's best independent films alongside exclusive daily deep dive interviews which provide behind the scenes insights into the inspirations and production stories of the most talented filmmakers on the planet.
#escape #malaise #motel #drama #shortfilm
