The Film

Into the Storm began with a question I couldn't answer: How could a family filled with so much love, laughter, and connection also be shaped by violence?

For years, I thought I understood what happened to my family. Making this film has shown me how much I didn't know. As I began gathering stories from my siblings, relatives, and family friends, I found myself looking beyond the events of 1995 and toward the histories, silences, and patterns that shaped all of us. I became less interested in finding a simple explanation and more interested in understanding how love and violence could exist in the same home—and what it takes for a family to heal.

Into the Storm is a deeply personal documentary told from inside my family's story. The film weaves intimate interviews with family archives, present-day observational footage, landscape, and original illustrated animation. These different forms allow the film to move between past and present, memory and lived experience, and into moments where no camera was there to capture what happened.

At its heart, Into the Storm isn't only a film about domestic violence or what my family lost. It's about what we carried forward—and whether, by facing what came before us, we can choose what we pass on.