LOS ANGELES – Oct. 23, 2025 – Production begins this month on REPERCUSSIONS, a short dance film that uses movement and cinematic language to explore adoption, emotional trauma and the lifelong journey toward forgiveness. Written and directed by Los Angeles–based filmmaker Alexander King, the film dramatizes the relationship between a middle-aged woman and her past self as she confronts the memory of placing her child for adoption.
After witnessing a mother embrace her newborn, the protagonist is pulled into the emotional aftermath of her own decision decades earlier. Through a choreographed duet between her younger and older selves, REPERCUSSIONS transforms dance into its emotional centerpiece, examining shame, love, grief and acceptance.
The production is now in its final stretch of fundraising, with $5,000 remaining to fully finance equipment, rentals, editing, color correction and sound. Contributions may be made through the official GoFundMe campaign at:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring-the-repercussion-music-video-to-life
Georgina Elizabeth Okon (SAG-AFTRA) portrays the older Evelyn, bringing depth through movement shaped by her background in taekwondo. Her choreography conveys heaviness, tension and emotional release as she confronts her past.
Tyona Bowman, an actress and dancer trained in ballet and acrobatics, plays the younger Evelyn. Her movement blends jagged physicality with soft release, expressing the conflict and love that led to her choice.
Their shared dance serves as the film’s central storytelling device—a visual and embodied conversation between past and present.
I was adopted.
25 years later I am now beginning the process of understanding what my adoption means to me.
One of the hardest parts has been trying to understand my birth mother’s decision to put me up for adoption. All I know is that my birth father left before I was born and that my mother walked into a Ukrainian hospital pregnant and left empty-handed.
The physical act of being let go is something I can’t remember, but I feel completely. It led me to resent my biological and adopted family because I believed I wasn’t enough.
Gradually, I have found it easier to name, nurture and accept all the parts of me that feel abandoned yet fear attachment, favor distance over commitment and fight when they long to love. I’m letting my inner child know he is worthy of the space he holds, the family he chooses and the love he receives.
These raw feelings are unique to every adoptee and birth parent alike. I share my story as a way to connect with others who, like me, have never talked openly about the emotional traumas we carry.
It’s taken me a long time to accept that my birth mother’s greatest act of love was to let me go and I hope to give voice to the question so many carry quietly: “Why wasn’t I good enough?”
King describes REPERCUSSIONS as both personal and universal—rooted in his own adoption experience but speaking to anyone who has grappled with difficult choices, longing, abandonment or forgiveness.
“Art like this doesn’t wait — it heals, it connects and it must be made now,” King said.
The project’s creative team consists of independent artists, teachers and industry professionals committed to bringing meaningful, emotionally resonant work to audiences.
Only five donors at the $1,000 level are needed to close the remaining funding gap. Support at that level includes:
Additional contribution options include:
Alexander King is a Los Angeles–based filmmaker who uses dance and film as dual storytelling languages. His work focuses on emotional truth, human connection and the power of movement to reveal inner life.
Alexander King, Director
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