Together

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TOGETHER follows three sisters who reconnect after decades apart. Through Juliet's perspective as the middle sister, we witness how past trauma can be transformed through connection and truth.

On the 30th anniversary of their mother's death, Juliet meets the drunk driver she believed killed her mother. He is accompanied by his son who was a passenger in the vehicle at the time. This pivotal encounter reveals two shocking truths: her father was actually responsible for

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TOGETHER follows three sisters who reconnect after decades apart. Through Juliet's perspective as the middle sister, we witness how past trauma can be transformed through connection and truth.

On the 30th anniversary of their mother's death, Juliet meets the drunk driver she believed killed her mother. He is accompanied by his son who was a passenger in the vehicle at the time. This pivotal encounter reveals two shocking truths: her father was actually responsible for the crash that killed her mother, and Juliet has an older sister living in Vietnam. Juliet shares this news with her younger sister, Jen. Now both mothers themselves, they wonder

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Fifty years after the Vietnam War, TOGETHER traces three sisters' decades-long journey from trauma to healing. This film arrives at a crucial moment when record numbers of families worldwide face separation due to poverty, immigration policies, war, and inadequate social support systems. While headlines capture the initial shock of family separation, our film illuminates its profound, lifelong impact – a journey that unfolds not over days or months, but decades.

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Fifty years after the Vietnam War, TOGETHER traces three sisters' decades-long journey from trauma to healing. This film arrives at a crucial moment when record numbers of families worldwide face separation due to poverty, immigration policies, war, and inadequate social support systems. While headlines capture the initial shock of family separation, our film illuminates its profound, lifelong impact – a journey that unfolds not over days or months, but decades. Through intimate storytelling and artful animation, TOGETHER reveals how childhood trauma reverberates across generations while demonstrating that healing, though complex, is possible. Juliet and her sisters face abuse, abandonment, cultural displacement, and profound loss at a young age. Their experience mirrors countless others: today, 153 million children worldwide grow up without parental support, and 70% of the global population has experienced severe trauma. For Asian Americans, who are three times less likely to seek mental health support due to cultural stigma, seeing these Vietnamese American sisters break their silence is particularly powerful. Their story challenges the pressure to remain silent about family trauma, creating space for others to recognize their own experiences and seek help. By sharing these sisters' path to building loving families-by-choice, we aim to inspire a domino effect of healing, leading to stronger support systems and legal policies that keep families intact.

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TOGETHER weaves 2D animation, verité footage, interviews and archival to tell an intimate story. Each sister's journey has its own visual language: • Juliet's story combines archival materials with raw charcoal illustrations • Jen's unfolds through soft pencil animation inspired by Glen Keane • Hong's employs painterly animation influenced by Southeast Asian art A warm color palette and carefully crafted soundscape - including unique musical instruments for...

TOGETHER weaves 2D animation, verité footage, interviews and archival to tell an intimate story. Each sister's journey has its own visual language: • Juliet's story combines archival materials with raw charcoal illustrations • Jen's unfolds through soft pencil animation inspired by Glen Keane • Hong's employs painterly animation influenced by Southeast Asian art A warm color palette and carefully crafted soundscape - including unique musical instruments for each sister - unite these elements. Led by Emmy-nominated animator Yasmin Mistry, this multi-layered approach creates a fluid movement between past and present, honoring each sister's perspective while illuminating their shared path to healing.

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