>>> International Short Film Competition
dir. Alexandra Qin
USA, 2023 (10 min)
THIRSTYGIRL
Charlie Xu is a young Asian-American woman living in New York who is obsessed with sex. And her life works. Barely. Until she gets a call about her estranged younger sister Nic, a recovering alcoholic, who just relapsed. Charlie now has to drive her sister across the country to a rehab in Kentucky. Over the course of the journey, Charlie’s obsession with sex gets more and more out of control, as she uses it to avoid connecting with her sister and the painful memories of their childhood that keep coming up.
Alex Qin
Alex Qin is a New York-based, award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker with a background in tech, social justice, and art. She founded Emergent Works, a nonprofit teaching coding to formerly incarcerated individuals. Known for her talk “Shaving my head made me a better programmer,” Alex is an advocate for diversity in tech. Her art, inspired by her addiction recovery, explores themes of addiction. She premiered her solo show “Losing Things” in 2019. Currently, she’s working on two film projects: the documentary “Bogotá Story Story” ” and the horror short “A Plague of Wasps”.