TOOTH

TOOTH is an eight-episode animated series written in screenplay format accompanied by a trailer using scenes from the pilot episode. This series follows the main protagonist, Tooth, as she struggles to survive in post-apocalyptic southern California after escaping a band of human traffickers that kidnapped her in interior Alaska. Tooth will do anything to get back to her home and family, and she’s willing to prove it. Through trial after trial, Tooth claws her way home, ruining both herself and others in her single-minded pursuit of this goal. This project explores how far we go for family, whether what we do is justified, where the line between necessary and unthinkable lies, and what home really means. The reason I wanted to explore this question of home is because home can be anything to anyone. Home can be a place, a person, a family, a feeling. Once someone has a home, leaving it is difficult, and being forced out of it is traumatic, which is what happens to Tooth. I wanted to explore this relationship with home, especially when that home is both family and place based, in real depth. Throughout the series, Tooth has to decide what's important to her, and whether the meaning of home can change.