Stage V
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2019
United States
18 mins
NYC Premiere
Short Film Competition
| Phoebe Garcia Pearl | |
| Leeann Ortiz, Phoebe Garcia Pearl | |
| Daniel Berkey (Dad), Phoebe Garcia Pearl (Lydia) |
Lydia attends a bereavement group for people who have lost a loved one to cancer. As she hears the different stories of loss around the group and how grief has manifested itself in so many different ways, she is triggered to remember different memories during her father’s illness where each stage of grief affected her own life.

About the Director
Phoebe Garcia Pearl is an LA native. She attended The Boston Conservatory majoring in dance but left to became a Radio City Rockette at the age of 19. Since leaving the company in 2016, she has redirected her career to focus on acting and directing in TV and Film. She wrote Stage V to pay respect to her father’s memory and also to create a piece of art that people far and wide can relate to.
