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EPINEPHRINE
A SHORT FILM BY CROSBIE ROPER
PRESS KIT
EPINEPHRINE
A FILM BY CROSBIE ROPER
2024
LA INDIE SHORT FEST
Official Selection
2024
LA INDIE SHORT FEST
Best Experimental Short of the Season
2024
LA INDIE SHORT FEST
Short of the Season Runner Up
Epinephrine is a raw, unapologetic short experimental narrative that challenges audiences to confront uncomfortable truths about race, female sexualization, and identity. while celebrating the resilience and complexity of the human spirit. A story that demands to be told.
TRAGIC
MULATTO
(TROPE)
The characterization of mixed-race individuals, particularly of Black and white descent, as perpetually struggling with their identity and caught between two worlds, often leading to isolation or despair.
This harmful stereotype reinforces the notion that mixed-race heritage is inherently tragic and incompatible with happiness or belonging.
JEZABEL
(TROPE)
An idea originating during slavery, that portrays Black women as hyper-sexual, manipulative, insatiable, seductive, alluring, beguiling, tempting, and lewd- Often reducing Black women to objects of desire rather than fully realized individuals.
Historically, white women were portrayed as models of self-respect, self-control, and modesty - even sexual purity, but black women were often portrayed as innately promiscuous, even predatory.
Epinephrine is a film that follows a biracial sex worker and architecture student, as she experiences a cosm of microaggressions in her day to day life.
The film showcases how the tight grip of racial oppression has left its mark on all shades of black skin, and perpetuates the generational trauma that lives inside every black person having lived through it, or living after it. And explores the effect of a person both white and Black living in a haunted country - haunted by racism, colorism, and sexism - And how those ghosts, goblins and phantoms, follow and seep and mimic and pose and dance with the truth so often, they become indistinguishable from the fiction.
EPINEPHRINE EXPLORES THE CENTRAL QUESTION: HOW DO YOU HEAL WHEN THE PAIN FOLLOWS YOU?
WHY IS THIS FILM IMPORTANT?
Epinephrine addresses themes of identity, race, and female objectification in a way that resonates deeply with our current cultural landscape. It sheds light on the nuanced experiences of being mixed-race, navigating dualities in life, reflecting the struggles of those caught between worlds in a society grappling with questions of belonging and intersectionality. By connecting personal challenges with the enduring legacy of slavery and systemic inequities, the film highlights how historical trauma shapes modern identities. At the same time, Epinephrine challenges the dehumanization and objectification of women, particularly women of color, emphasizing the resilience required to reclaim agency and self-worth. With its bold portrayal of a protagonist who lives in both worlds of professionalism and hedonism, the film defies stereotypes, humanizing individuals often judged by societal labels. As a deeply personal yet universally relatable narrative, Epinephrine fosters empathy, and brings much-needed visibility to underrepresented voices in media. Epinephrine is not just a film—it’s a mirror reflecting the challenges of living in a world shaped by race, gender, and history.
"AT ITS CORE, EPINEPHRINE IS ABOUT WHAT WE CANNOT ESCAPE: THE ECHOES OF OUR PAST, THE IDENTITIES IMPOSED ON US, AND THE WAYS WE NAVIGATE A WORLD THAT OFTEN SEES US AS FRAGMENTED"
-dir. CROSBIE ROPER
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