Happy Face

 

Desperate to become less shallow, Stan, a handsome 19-year-old, deforms his face with bandages and attends a support group for disfigured people after he learns his cancer-ridden mother will undergo invasive facial surgery.

But when he’s exposed as an impostor, Stan strikes a deal with Vanessa, the domineering workshop leader: he stays with the group, and in exchange he trains them on how to use their facial differences as a weapon against our beauty-obsessed culture.

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Directed by: Alexandre Franchi

Written and Directed by: Joelle Bourjolly & Alexandre Franchi

Production: Le Film Happy Face, Inc. 2018

Run time: 100 minutes

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Splendona

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A physically disfigured fashion model becomes haunted by eerie visions as she prepares for her runway debut.

 

 

Written and Directed by: Kevin Vu

Production: 2016

Running: 10:04

 

 

 

 

 

Her

A short reel about the difficulties people with facial differences encounter in relationships.

Written by Alison Midstokke. Directed by Marten Bensten. Makeup by Kristen Pardee. Hair by Torchio Salon NYC.

Production 2014
Running Time: 1:41

 

Chained For Life

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A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.

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Written and Directed by: Aaron Schimberg

Production: Files Collective, Grand Motel Films, The Eyeslicer 2018

Run Time: 91 Minutes

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Beauty is Different & Different is Beauty

 

An expose written by Alison Midstokke on her difficultiers and triumphs as a person born with Craniofacial Syndrome. This was Alison's first time in the spotlight expressing herself, her differnces and her own uniue view on true beauty.

 

Year of production: 2012

Running Time: 2:19