Drama • Short film
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PROJECT SUMMARY
Evie is triggered one evening when she sees the neighborhood kids playing hide and seek, prompting her to finally speak to a therapist about trauma from her past. Through a series of therapy sessions, Evie recalls the summer when she was 8 years old and stayed at her cousin’s house, and how an older neighborhood boy turned an innocent game of hide and seek into a traumatic experience that would affect Evie in ways she never anticipated.
PROJECT MISSION
Imagine being a child who was sexually assaulted and instead of telling anyone, you hid that trauma for fear that you would be the one to get in trouble. This is too often the truth for child sexual assault survivors. Hiding Spot hopes to help change this narrative through Conversation, Awareness, and Education. My name is Edrei and I am the writer, director, and one of the producers of Hiding Spot. I have a personal connection to this story – just like everyone else. We all know someone who has been sexually assaulted, even if they haven’t told us. It may be a family member, a friend, a classmate, or a coworker. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey for every 1000 incidents of sexual assault, only 310 are reported. Nearly 70% of reported cases happened to children 17 and under. When I told friends that I was telling this story, they all responded with words of encouragement, and several of them confided in me with stories of their own. Maya Angelou said,“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” I’m telling this story for everyone who has their own story but aren’t able to share it.
Edrei Hutson graduated with her MFA in Filmmaking and has written, directed, and produced several short films. Her most recent short film, SISTERS, won 2nd place for best film at the Capital City Black Film Festival and Best Original Screenplay at the Culture and Diversity Film Festival.
Edrei is an active member of the Producers Guild of America, the JTC Women of Color List, Women in Moving Pictures, and Array Crew Members. As a writer, Edrei’s focus is on creating diverse content and inspired films with strong female leads that empower.
Rob Goldman is a Producer originally from New York. After studying film at the University of Vermont, Rob moved out to Los Angeles to find his way into production. He started his career at Fox Digital producing short films, some of which premiered at Sundance. Rob has worked on different high-profile documentary productions such as McCartney 3,2,1, Naomi Osaka, QB1: Beyond the Lights, among others.
In his spare time Rob produced short films and the podcast Human Values. Rob is excited to jump back into short films and see this important story come to be.
IMDb – “Aisha Lomax is an actor originally from Nebraska. She decided that she’d rather play a lawyer on the big screen than actually be one in real life. So, she moved to Los Angeles where she began her training at the Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio.
Years later and her hard work has paid off with roles on Harlem(Amazon), S.W.A.T. (CBS), Kenan (NBC), Good Girls(NBC) as well the upcoming film, Bromates. In addition to film and television, Aisha has had the pleasure of being featured in commercials such as Progressive, Rocket Mortgage, Frito-Lay and Orkin.
Aisha has also dipped her toe into the world of writing and producing with the short film, Acceptance, which won first place at BESLA Film Festival and was distributed on BET’s Star Cinema.
As an actor, Aisha hopes to portray characters that make audiences laugh and reflect. As a budding writer and aspiring director, she hopes to create work that speaks not only to the world in its current state but what the world could be in the future.”
