NO SECOND CHANCES
7 min | Drama | 2022
Written by: Michelle Olumilua
Directed by: Aaliyah Mckay
Produced by: Elaine Ivy Harris
Premiered 29 October 2022 at the Academy Award Qualifying Urbanfest Film Festival in NYC.
A young woman meets her estranged father after two decades apart, but can she let go of the man she thought he was to see the man he really is?
Alicia has just celebrated her 25th birthday when she receives a message from her estranged father, Charlie. Suddenly confronted by a swarm of unresolved emotions she reluctantly agrees to see him. The meeting between the two is awkward. Both parties are unsure of what to say. Charlie is desperate to reconnect, but Alicia doesn’t believe in second chances.
No Second Chances is a character driven, intimately personal story exploring the vulnerability, the anger, and all the emotions in between of how it feels to be the child of a parent you never knew.