When an immigrant teen must help her mom before a school exam, tensions of belonging in a new country bubble to the surface.
Bay Area Premiere
Playing as part of Jews In Shorts: Relationships
Noam Argov is an Israeli-American filmmaker and MFA Directing Student at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Growing up as an immigrant near Disney World in Florida, Noam spent her childhood dreaming up elaborate stories. In 2020, Noam started the MFA Graduate Film Program in Writing/Directing at NYU Tisch to develop original feature films and TV. At Tisch, Noam is a Film Futures Scholar and BAFTA US Scholarship Program nominee. Her 2022 narrative short “Let Me Assist You” was acquired for streaming by Omeleto, and she produced two films that premiered in SXSW 2023. She is currently working on her first feature film, with plans to graduate in 2024. Prior to NYU, Noam got her start doing outdoor adventure filmmaking (mountaineering, skiing, climbing), and then transitioned to directing and producing independent documentaries all over the world, working as a National Geographic Explorer.
Sponsored by Hebrew Free Loan Association of San Francisco