Waif
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Angela has everything she thought she ever wanted-a successful husband, a lavish house, and a bottomless fortune.
But the sight of a strange man in a grocery story one night reawakens her dormant sexuality, and soon Angela embarks on a dangerous descent into the world of underground pornography and back-alley plastic surgery.
As the stakes get higher, long-buried memories resurface, and Angela finds herself enamored with Reena, a fetish film performer. With some help from a queer gang called The Waifs, Angela is forced to make the decision between her unhappy upper-class life and the treachereous world of underground film.
Samantha Kolesnik
Samantha Kolesnik is an author, filmmaker, and artist based in central Pennsylvania. She is best known for her books Waif (2021) and True Crime (2020). She is also the author of the YA novella Elogona (Weirdpunk Books) and the short fiction collection Tales From Between Presents: Samantha Kolesnik's Lonesome Haunts. Her short films have screened at festivals internationally. Her directorial debut, Mama's Boy, premiered at the Telluride Horror Show.A trauma survivor living with PTSD, Kolesnik continues to explore film, photography, and writing as tools of reclamation, resistance, and healing.
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