Lainey Macken
Directing
Known For

A troubled young pianist is haunted by the memory of her demanding instructor.
To Keep Your Vital Organs Warm
Elena works a minimum wage job by day and writes music with her childhood best friend, Moss, by night. After having a strange out-of-body experience, her anxiety around being predisposed to schizophrenia spirals out of control. Visions of an ancestor, who she believes to have had schizophrenia, haunt her dreams and soon begin to bleed into her everyday life. The stigma surrounding mental health disorders hangs over her head, forcing her to self-isolate despite Moss's attempts to help her. With an important gig coming up that could jumpstart her music career and get her out of employment limbo, Elena must confront her debilitating fears to find comfort - but not a cure - in music.
Predisposition

It’s a quiet rainy evening at a 24-hour flower shop, and the mild-mannered clerk Freddie lays out mousetraps around the store to stop an evasive vermin that has been eating all the merchandise. At the same time, he gets anxious when his favorite regular customer, Mrs. Calloway, a quirky but loving old woman doesn’t arrive to pick up her arrangement on schedule. Passionate about his customers and the shop, Freddie must protect the flowers while dealing with the critter and the increasingly unusual people that come by at these strange hours.