gaze is a coming-of-age film that follows the story of Leyla, a black queer person who is struck between her own comfort and her relationships and connections to others. After a long estrangement from a past love, Ty, Leyla is forced to confront her feelings and ultimately decide if she will continue carrying the weight of her own loneliness, or if she can find solace in the presence of her former love.

gaze was selected as apart of the official line up for the 2023 BFI film festival and is another short film that I had the opportunity to script supervise for. Within this fictional love story, I worked closely with the writer to develop the characters’ arcs both as individuals and as a couple. We explored and developed how to make the off-screen history between the couple apparent in the short time we had with them on screen, utilising body language, subtext and tone of voice to hint towards the main conflict as we reach the crescendo of emotions as two exes become reacquainted.