The Session
Synopsis:
Aria walks to her therapy session with Dr. Clarke on a crisp fall day.
After she and her therapist talk about the weather, she remembers to check her phone.
She’s waiting for an important call from her son’s psychiatrist that she must take.
With little prompting from Dr. Clarke, Aria launches into a wide-ranging monologue from the injustices of mental illness and treatment, the
fear she has for her life, the absurdity of the mundane world bumping against her relentlessly
intense choices… until, unexpectedly, the phone rings.
Aria jumps to answer it, only to discover
it’s a robo-call.
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Director
Christina Shaver writes and produces award-winning narrative shorts and feature films.
She is an alum of Stowe Story Labs and the Full Spectrum Features Producers Lab.
She is a member of Chicago Media Angels and on the Creative Cabinet for IFA.
Christina has a degree in music from Northwestern University, and was in the inaugural class of the Second City’s Harold Ramis Film
School.