Holy Water

Directed by Arslan Nepal

Length: 
12:00
Producers: Claire Barnett, Natalie Remplakowski, Amalia Eddings
Editor:

 Claire Barnett
Cinematographer:

 Leo Zhang
Sound Designer:

 Claire Barnett

Despite her deeply religious upbringing, 15-year-old Lois attends a seance with a group of misfit girls to contact her younger sister who recently took her own life. The threat of hellfire looms over her town like a dark cloud, and the whispers have become deafening. Lois must find out the fate of her sister's soul, even if it means risking her own in the process. Taking place in small-town Arkansas, Holy Water is for those who dared to question, dared to hope, and dared to find the answer.

Graduate Film

ceb9565@nyu.edu

Claire Barnett is a writer/director from Little Rock, Arkansas. Her stories focus on the complicated inner world of women and girls from the American South. Claire’s films have screened at film festivals nationwide. Recent credits include her short documentary about a visually impaired couple from Arkansas, SUSAN AND LESLIE, which is an Official Selection at the Slamdance Film Festival (2023) New Orleans Film Festival (2022), and Hot Springs Documentary Festival (2022). Claire received her BFA in Film from the University of Central Arkansas in 2021 before enrolling in her MFA in directing at the NYU TISCH Graduate Film Program where she is a recipient of the 2023 New York Women in Film and Television Scholarship, Claire is delighted to be a narrative shorts film programmer for the Slamdance Film Festival’s 2024 season.