I am thrilled to announce that we are finally unleashing our award winning film, Almost Home, to the internet. I’m so excited to get to share this creation with you all at last! This project was a passion project by myself and my partner Erik “Talltree” Butts. It was even awarded the Hollywood Filmmaker Award at Divulge Dancers’ Film Festival.
Sharing this with y’all has been a LONG time in the making. Erik and I began working on this project before we even started dating and now we are coming up on our 7 year anniversary! Along the way it has taken the back seat many times as we focused on our respective work. But now is finally its moment to be set free! Its our first short film as a part of our ongoing project Flash the Abyss.
About
Almost Home is film about the journey we embark on only to return to the truth we start from. The story is an autobiography of professional dancer, Alyssa Aparicio, on her path to embracing the Goddess within and shedding the weight of industry expectations.
She knew what she was meant for all along. One of her earliest memories, a recurring daydream of herself dancing through the clouds over her native Bronx sky. She dreamed of being a star, an artist, exploring the world. Her desires took her into the realm of modeling at a very young age before she segwayed back to her first passion of dance. Immersed in these respective industries and big cities of New York and Los Angeles, she soon became disenchanted by the feeling that her spirit was diminishing more and more with every pound upon the pavement and heartless casting call. She had become estranged from her true nature and found herself on the brink of breakdown trying to make ends meet.
From the depths of this despair came a profound period of breakthrough as she went on a spiritual exploration that reunited her with what she refers to as her Highest Self, representing a limitless, empowered, divinely inspired version of herself.
We find the protagonist at the intersection of breaking point and entry point into owning the depths of her potential. At the borderline of who she refused to remain and who she knew she had always been.
This film was created at the blossoming of new love between the dancer and director, Erik “Talltree” Butts. It seems destined that his talent for painting otherworldly visions would be the vessel for bringing her ethereal dream to life.