IN THE DEEP
A Film By Brenda Wachel
A Film By Brenda Wachel
One beautiful night, a woman's exquisite life is upended when her fiancé vanishes.
Marga believes her life is perfect. One magical night, her fiancé disappears. No body. No answers. Engulfed in the silence he leaves behind, she is a woman underwater. Then, a stranger's story pulls her from the deep. Now Marga must choose between the seductive promise of blind hope and the rich messiness of truth.
"People suck." That was the first line I heard when imagining this story. Blunt, inelegant, and painfully human. It didn't arrive as a clever provocation — it came from a quiet heartbreak, the kind that forms when you watch people fail each other, and fail themselves.
That heartbreak opened a door into a story I couldn't turn away from — a story about what we cling to, what we fear, and what becomes possible once we stop looking away. I know that fear — the fear that truth will shatter us, and the quieter, deeper fear that turning away from it will slowly erase us.
I wanted to honor that truth quietly — with gentleness over grandeur, feeling over explanation, and a performance drawn away from anger and into the truth of loving without answer.
Some losses leave no body — only love with nowhere left to go. And sometimes, choosing to walk toward what terrifies us — however broken we may be — can become its own unexpected act of grace.
Director Brenda Wachel grew up in Texas where she graduated with a television and film degree at the University of Texas in Austin, and moved to Los Angeles. She is an accomplished feature film Script Supervisor, having worked closely with critically acclaimed directors across the globe. Some notable films include, "JURASSIC PARK 3", "HIDALGO", "CAPTAIN AMERICA - THE FIRST AVENGER", "FAST & FURIOUS 7", and more. Having learned from some of the very best, she ventured into writing and directing branding spots, and won the 2024 SPARK THE VOTE contest for her spot, "DEMOCRACY". She loves to give back and has become a guest speaker and mentor for young filmmakers at universities. Her most recent work has been writing and directing her first narrative short film, "IN THE DEEP”.
Maria Bata — Marga
Taylor Nichols — Angel Man in the Bar
Whitney Anderson — Livia
Evan Gamble — Luca
Gui Agustini — Philip
Jaime Alvarez — Ramon the store clerk
Cameron Owen — Director of Photography
Laurel Bergman - Production Designer
Trevor Armstrong — Composer
Elizabeth Jet — Costume Designer
Joel Krantz — Sound Designer
Email: inthedeepshortfilm@gmail.com
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