Mandy's Voice

• NYWIFT 24 Drama
• 2024
• 10 Mins
• Drama

MANDY'S VOICE is a narrative fictional short film about Mandy, a 17 year old teen girl with autism who's mom, Liz, searches for ways to communicate with her nonspeaking daughter. When Liz hits rock bottom, she begrudgingly turns to a controversial therapy, Facilitated Communication, which can give Mandy the ability to express herself by typing words on a keyboard, if she is able. A new world opens up to both daughter and mother once Mandy is capable of independently owning her own voice for the very first time. BASED ON A TRUE STORY

• Actor :Rachel Barcellona as Mandy (International spokesperson for Autism, the first Miss America Florida who is on the spectrum and identifies as non-binary) Karen Sillas as Liz (Mandy's mom) (starred in What Happened Was..., which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and launched Sillas into primetime television in her own detective series Under Suspicion. In 2021 she starred in T11 Incomplete)
• Director :Roxanna Lewis
• Producer :Roxanna Lewis