an outfit
A mother of a young two-year-old girl has been unhappy with her body and avoiding purchasing any clothes for herself since she gave birth. With an impending social event coming up, she has to overcome that instilled fear and begin to build back her confidence.
17 mins
Screening in Chicago Shorts Block.
About the director
Zohra is a Chicago born, award-winning filmmaker Zohra graduated with an electrical engineering degree before she found her true calling. Of South Asian heritage, Zohra is a culturally rich and avid world traveler and loves to tell stories from corners of the globe. Zohra directs, produces, creates and develops projects from the ground up, including feature films (LET US MAKE EVE, WHITE PEOPLE MONEY), short films (AN OUTFIT, FINDING MR. RIGHT), documentaries (FALLEN STAR RISING SUN), tv shows (IT’S TEI TIME), commercials, and music videos, which led her to create her own production company, ZohraFilms. She has also Executive Produced A SOLDIER’S STORY: RETURN FROM THE DEAD that has been distributed through Lionsgate.
Zohra has created film festivals from scratch, has been the Festival Director of the Various Artists independent Film Festival, the Senior Programming Director of the Chicago South Asian Film Festival, and has been in the festival circuit for the last decade. Her work schedule is happily hectic, but when she’s not immersed in a project, she is studying to get her pilot’s license and can be seen tooling around town on her motorcycle. And she never, ever, misses a Chicago Cubs game.
Isaias Pérez
Is an award-winning filmmaker born in Texas by Puerto Rican parents. Graduating from Northeastern Illinois University with a Bachelor’s degree in Theater, Communications and Media. Isaias discovered his passion for film when he was six years old. He used to save every penny given to him from his parents to go to the movies. He wrote his first play when he was twenty two years old for his local church which led him to write, produce and act in professional theater, film and radio series. His work includes productions such as (DUENA Y SENORA 2005, TELEMUNDO/SLAYER 2006, Syfy channel) TV (THE SECRETS OF SANTA MONICA, 2016/ JOAN THE MUSICAL, 2017/ HAPPINESS AND TEARS, 2017/ NOT FOR SALE, 2018) Theater, (QUE GENTE MI GENTE, 2015-2017) Radio series and (THE AUDITION, 2020/ AN OUTFIT, 2022) short films.
