"Cherry Picking" Film Fundraising

Cherry Picking is a student short film explores the complexities of female friendship and questions the point a relationship becomes homoerotic. In the growing conservative climate, the film intends to allow those questioning their sexualities to feel a little more understood – reminding audiences that you can discover your sexuality at any age, any moment, with any person.

Colby Amos (writer/director) is a senior film student at the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at NYU: Tisch. Spending the past four years mastering her craft and finding her voice, Cherry Picking is the encapsulation of the progress made during her self-discovery over the years. Raised loving movies, literature, and theatre, Colby sees storytelling as a means of reflecting and questioning human nature. She, like many other Black storytellers, dreams of increasing representation and humanization of Black people in the media. Raised in theatre, Colby enjoys exploring the intersectionality of theatre and film. When she’s not directing, she works on sets as a Production Designer – enjoying the ability to bring the director’s vision of space to life.

About the film:

Cherry Picking follows Reya and Marceline moments before Marceline walks out the door to lose her virginity. Between shots, pre-date anxiety, and an argument discussing Marceline's “readiness” for her big moment, the two find themselves in an intimate tango that pushes them to make a decision that changes their friendship forever.