First

About First

A teen girl’s experiences online and IRL blur together in this quietly inventive short by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew. Through an ingenious use of subtitles, Durand and Chew seamlessly toggle between the banalities of young life and the fizzy, yearning commentary running beneath those same experiences when shared online.

First is a 2019 drama film directed by Daniel Chew and Micaela Durand. Its themes are social media, internet, chat, and smart phone.

Mae Wangmo, Anne Hanavan, Angel Cruz, and Ruben Gutierrez lead the cast. It runs 12 minutes and was released in January 2019.

The screenplay is by Daniel Chew and Micaela Durand. In the United States it streams on Metrograph.

The Intern, Searching, and A Man Called Otto make useful companions to First, all filed under friendship.