Samantha Mitchell’s “RSVP” : Incluvie Film Fest
“There’s always something you can do…to make people feel like they’re welcome”

As an asteroid hurtles toward Earth, a quiet neighborhood is declared a red zone, destined to collapse under the impending shockwaves. Residents rush to evacuate to safety—everyone except Noi, the weary owner of a small, timeworn barbershop. Refusing to abandon the place she has built her life around, she chooses to face the end on her own terms.
“There’s always something you can do…to make people feel like they’re welcome”
It’s 2021 and what few LGBTQ+ films that are produced by major film studios continue to star cisgender heterosexual actors, rather than actual LGBTQ+ people.
We got a movie that takes the old school approach of trying to creep you out with chilling atmosphere more than anything else.
As an extremely avid fan of DC’s animation, I’ve become familiar with the way the studio uses Batman as a bit of a Trojan Horse to introduce some of their lesser known characters.
'Living' dives into many themes that we can all understand regardless of our cultural backgrounds. We can see this through the shared similarities between 'Ikiru' and 'Living'.
Every movement becomes a question of identity. To become who we are meant to be. In order to reach that we often have to shed who we once were, and that shedding can sometimes be so brutal it’s ungraceful.