Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
A housewife trapped in a 1950s ad campaign becomes the unwitting messenger for a world consumed by plastic.
"Throwaway Living" is a runner-up of Plastic Pollution Coalition and Hollywood, Health and Society's short horror film contest Plastic Kills! which highlights the horrors of single-use plastics.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Laura Malatos
Writer & Director
Helen Sun
Writer & Producer
Laura Malatos (she/her) & Helen Sun (she/her) are a writing-filmmaking duo with an appetite for overly ambitious characters and darkly comedic worlds. Despite being born 5,000 miles apart (in Seattle and literal Moscow, Russia), they came together at USC and have been ride-or-die roommates ever since. Alongside writing, they collaborate on social media ads, music videos, and narrative films – jobs that have brought them unhinged experiences, from transforming their apartment into an underground bunker to staging medieval fights in the California mountains. They are excited to keep exploring heightened worlds in their work and bring complex queer and female-driven narratives to the screen whilst having a laugh.
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ABOUT PLASTICKILLS!
“Plastic Kills!” is a horror short film competition from Plastic Pollution Coalition and Hollywood, Health & Society, designed to highlight the terrors of plastic pollution and its toxic effects on our bodies, our children, our pets, and our planet.
plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2023/10/31/announcing-the-plastic-kills-short-film-contest-winners
#PlasticKills!
#PlasticKills
#PlasticPollutionCoalition
#HollywoodHealthandSociety
#FliptheScriptonPlastics
#plasticspollution
#horrorfilms
#shortfilms
#Halloweenfilms
A housewife trapped in a 1950s ad campaign becomes the unwitting messenger for a world consumed by plastic.
"Throwaway Living" is a runner-up of Plastic Pollution Coalition and Hollywood, Health and Society's short horror film contest Plastic Kills! which highlights the horrors of single-use plastics.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Laura Malatos
Writer & Director
Helen Sun
Writer & Producer
Laura Malatos (she/her) & Helen Sun (she/her) are a writing-filmmaking duo with an appetite for overly ambitious characters and darkly comedic worlds. Despite being born 5,000 miles apart (in Seattle and literal Moscow, Russia), they came together at USC and have been ride-or-die roommates ever since. Alongside writing, they collaborate on social media ads, music videos, and narrative films – jobs that have brought them unhinged experiences, from transforming their apartment into an underground bunker to staging medieval fights in the California mountains. They are excited to keep exploring heightened worlds in their work and bring complex queer and female-driven narratives to the screen whilst having a laugh.
_______________________
ABOUT PLASTICKILLS!
“Plastic Kills!” is a horror short film competition from Plastic Pollution Coalition and Hollywood, Health & Society, designed to highlight the terrors of plastic pollution and its toxic effects on our bodies, our children, our pets, and our planet.
plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2023/10/31/announcing-the-plastic-kills-short-film-contest-winners
#PlasticKills!
#PlasticKills
#PlasticPollutionCoalition
#HollywoodHealthandSociety
#FliptheScriptonPlastics
#plasticspollution
#horrorfilms
#shortfilms
#Halloweenfilms
