Desmond's Not Here Anymore

Desmond's Not Here Anymore

Short · Drama · 15 pages
The mother can’t remember, the daughter can’t forget.
Written by Lindiwe Suttle Müller-Westernhagen
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Finalist, Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Fall 2021
Winner, HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition 2019

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Lindiwe Suttle Müller-Westernhagen
Berlin, DE
An MBA graduate turned singer-songwriter turned writer. My characters are mostly black women and girls. I love to explore family dynamics across different cultures, sisterhood, outcasts standing up against social norms, rebels showing their human spirit rise time and time again, and any inspiring true stories promoting the well-being, empowerment, ...
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With a unique international background and the true soul of an artist, Lindiwe is a screenwriter to put on your radar. From songwriting, performing, to optioning her first pilot to a channel, directing award-winning short films and having prod cos interested in her riveting true-story crime feature, there's nothing Lindiwe can't do. Her writing focuses on Black female characters who fight to break stigmas, rebels that show their human spirit rise up time and time again, and outcasts that stand up against social norms of society. Like her characters, Lindiwe uses her voice to make a difference.
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HollyShorts 2019 Winner. Family secrets are meant to be kept, and normally they are. Over 30 years later, screenwriter Lindiwe Suttle Müller-Westernhagen @lindiwesuttle is finally telling hers. Her HollyShorts 2019 winning screenplay, Desmond’s Not Here Anymore, follows a devoted daughter who is confronted with the secret of her sexual abuse as she tries to care for her mother with dementia. This gothic family drama leans in on the personal horrors each character is dealing with: dark family history, toxic sexuality, and the terrors of remembering and forgetting. Desmond’s Not Here Anymore is ultimately about healing but it is also a celebration of the unique, abiding mother-daughter bond. South African director Mmabatho Montsho (2020 Best Short Film – Worldwide Women’s Film Festival) @montshotheblack led this global group of filmmakers from Seattle, Los Angeles, Johannesburg, Berlin, New York with 26 of the 37 crew being women. Law & Order alumna and Chicago Med veteran S. Epatha Merkerson stars alongside Yolonda Ross (The Chi) in this unique, women-powered short film production.