
Kestrin Pantera
Directing
Biography
Kestrin Pantera is a writer/director the New York Times called “a force.” Her feature, “Mother’s Little Helpers” World Premiered at SXSW, it sold and released in 2020. Awards include Best Feature, Best Director, Best Ensemble Performance and Best Actress.
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Alter Eco

The film revolves around Claire, a kind soul who resents having to enforce the law at all times, and Jay, an angry Traffic Officer who loves his job, being the perfect outlet for his anger and frustrations. Coming both from a place of despair and loneliness, Jay and Claire meet and engage in a tumultuous relationship which will eventually teach them that love can spread redemption.
Expired
A former one-hit-wonder relocates her family to a small town, where she becomes fiercely competitive in her daughter's school science fair, reigniting her thwarted ambitions and sparking a parental feud.
Untitled Kestrin Pantera Indie Project

A disoriented couple gets invited to a Sonoma Chateau by affluent strangers and ends up having the most unhinged weekend of their lives.
Pretty Problems

Paul Lionetti is a child prodigy whose genius becomes both his greatest gift and his ultimate curse. Celebrated in his youth for groundbreaking inventions, Paul's masterpiece--an enigmatic device known as "the cube"--promised to change the world. But in a world driven by greed and shadowed by conspiracy, brilliance is a dangerous currency.
Dark Mind

The story of a man, whose life is turned upside down when he leases a car to drive for a rideshare company.
Stakes Is High

When Joy Pride, a groovy 70s burn-out on the caboose of the flower power movement learns she has weeks to live, her estranged children come together to do right by a mother who always did them wrong. It's based on the premise that no matter who dies, we always find a way to make it all about us.
Mother's Little Helpers
Niki and Lara are two women with polar-opposite personalities who discover, at their husband’s funeral, that they were married to the same man. As secrets from his life emerge, the unlikely duo embark on a perilous road trip to uncover the dangerous truth about the man they thought they both knew.
Double Crossed
"Stars and Suns" is the story of a teenage girl and her younger brother, both fantasizing about escape.
Stars and Suns

Following the debate over California's Proposition 8, this short film is an exploration of how modern American families are constructed, not only those within the LGBTQ community.
Same Difference

Channing has it all: a beautiful home, a rock star lifestyle, and a loving husband intent on ruining it all by knocking her up.
Let's Ruin It with Babies

When the Supreme Court rolls back marriage equality and orders couples’ lawful children to be taken and placed with “traditional” families, a daughter and dad flee their home, dodging citizen bounty-hunters, to find refuge in a gay-ballroom safe-house across the border.