A mother and daughter lose their home due to the coronavirus pandemic and live in a tent on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Danny (Kelley Kali) has a plan, though. If she manages to pay the deposit by the end of the day, they'll move into a new apartment. The problem is that she’s short $200, setting off an extraordinary struggle against time. I'm Fine (Thanks For Asking) focuses on the atypical daily life of the excluded who are stuck in a difficult legal situation. The presentation here recalls something of the Dardenne brothers' movies. The filmmakers see the characters with compassion and understanding, and the film was made largely thanks to the coronavirus Stimulus checks disbursed to US residents by the government. It is also a triumph of multi-tasking; Kelley Kali and Angelique Molina are the film's screenwriters, producers and stars, for which they were awarded at SXSW as the so-called multi-hyphenate storytellers.
Audience award nominated film. Please pick up a voting card on entering the screening and tear in a place marking your opinion and throw it into an assigned box after the screening (cards and boxes will be available at the theaters). The filmmakers have a chance of winning $10,000.
SXSW 2021 – Special Jury Award; Florida FF 2021 – Special Jury Award, Audience Award
Kelley "Kali" Chatman is a native of Los Angeles and a graduate of the Department of Anthropology at Howard University. Her films present the trials of excluded communities. Chatman's short, Lalo's House, was about child trafficking in Haiti, and in 2006 she became the first woman to work on the Noh Matta Wat Creole television series in Belize. She began her career at National Geographic and Entertainment Tonight.
2006 Noh Watta Wat!, odcinek 2x04 (TV series)
2016 The Discovery of Dit Dodson (short)
2018 Lalo’s House (short)
2018 The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer (co-dir.)
2021 Wszystko w porządku / I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking) (co-dir.)
Angelique Molina is a graduate of the USC Cinematic Arts Production Department in California. She started her career as a cinematographer of student films, to stand behind the camera for her own story in 2016. The documentary short film There Goes the Neighborhood takes the subject of gentrification from the perspective of an African-American family from View Park, California, and won an award at the First Look festival.
2016 There Goes the Neighberhood (short)
2018 Quinciñera (short)
2021 Wszystko w porządku / I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking) (co-dir.)