THE TEN PLAGUES

Dir. Serena Shulman (10min, USA, 2014)
Narrative Short
East Coast Premiere

An unwitting young woman en route to a Passover Seder faces a wake-up call of biblical proportions; she encounters the modern-day Ten Plagues. And then she must face her family.

Playing as part of the Shorts Program Fluttering Hearts & Longing Bellies

Q&A with Serena Shulman will follow the screening.

Serena Shulman is the writer, director, and executive producer of the award-winning short film, The Ten Plagues, presented by LipShtick Pictures. She is currently in post-production on the web series, NEXT, which she also wrote and directed, featuring a female-led Silicon Valley startup on a retreat where they must give up all of their mobile phones, tablets, laptops… and must survive the week left to their own devices.

She is a member of Bay Area Women in Film + Media and is the Program Manager for SF Web Fest. Serena also coaches creative writing with 826 Valencia and with the Young Storytellers Foundation’s inaugural screenwriting program in San Francisco.

“As much as I love to cry at movies, I love to cry while laughing even more. And this 10-minute delight made me do that.” -Marina Times