White Stain Synopsis
A young woman is perpetually haunted by the darkest memories of her life. Every touch of the demons who sexually assaulted her imprints a permanent white stain.
White Stain was an official selection of the 2016 WVN Online Film Festival.
MATURE, CW/TW: sexual assault, rape, violence against women.
About the Filmmaker
Kayla Tong (born in 1993) is a cinematographer-editor graduate from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Originally from Hong Kong, at the age of 15 she moved to Los Angeles, where she is currently based. She was a cinematography fellow in the Asian Film Academy of the Busan International Film Festival (2014) and a fellow of Armed with a Camera Fellowship (2015). Kayla hopes to tell real stories of the marginalized in her films. She hopes to aid audiences in rediscovering the spark in humanity.
More from the Filmmaker
The story of White Stain is inspired by a story from a homeless woman I encountered in Downtown Los Angeles last year. Broken and devastated, she walked up to me that day asking if I could get her soap because she was raped a few days ago and really wanted a shower. She later revealed that she has been raped several times prior and was forced into prostitution as a teenager. It had never occurred to me that the permanent damage done to a rape victim lies in the filth she feels in her heart that other people cannot see. I decided to tell this story in her point of view.
