Mary Torrez, Roosevelt Palafox, Sara Murphy, and Katherine Sainte Marie in a scene from Ida's Flowers Funeral.
IDA'S FLOWERS FUNERAL
is a low-budget Young Adult short film made for the web.
Inspired by the themes in "Little Ida's Flowers" by Hans Christian Andersen this tale examines peritraumatic dissociation and sexual assault.
SYNOPSIS- When teenage Ida is assaulted in the woods she retreats into a fantasy world where she encounters Miss Professor Deerling, a kind but bossy deer. The Professor and the compassionate flowers of the forest counsel Ida as she comes to grips with her traumatic experience.
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Behind the Scenes, Production stills
“‘We cannot live long,’ said the Flowers. ‘Tomorrow morning we shall be quite dead; and you must tell little Ida to bury us in the garden, near to the grave of the canary; then, in the summer we shall wake up and be more beautiful than ever.’”