Stella

Stella Allen

Director / Writer

I'm a senior at Skidmore College studying English and minoring in Media & Film. My filmmaking background runs through Semester Cinema, where I worked in production design and management, and an intensive workshop at the New York Film Academy. On the writing side, I studied creative nonfiction at the New York State Writers' Institute alongside Phillip Lopate and Thomas Chatterton Williams. I am also a Senior Captain of Skidmore's NCAA Varsity Equestrian Team. I write, direct, and produce my own short films.

Cortlandt Manor, NY
Int. Film Work - Continuous

Short Films

UNTITLED_47 Film 01

UNTITLED_47

Director, Editor, & Writer · 2026 · 2:45

A young man scrolling through his computer discovers a mysterious file that seem to know his every move, until one recording reveals something that should be impossible.

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Weird Visions Film 02

Weird Visions

Director, Cinematographer, Editor, & Writer · 2026 · 3:56

What happens when longing starts to consume?

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The Debt Film 03

The Debt

Director, Editor, & Writer · 2026 · 2:12

After a woman holds the elevator for him, a painfully grateful man becomes convinced he owes her a debt he can never repay, going to increasingly absurd and unsettling lengths to settle the score.

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Reflection Film 04

Reflection

Director, Cinematographer, Editor, & Writer · 2026 · 1:45

Exploring the gap between our perception of self and reality. How does performance anxiety influence the way we view ourselves?

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Exsanguinate Film 05

Exsanguinate

Director · 2026 · 8:30

When a woman mysteriously disappears from a deeply religious town, her best friend’s search for answers uncovers a disturbing secret that the community will do anything to keep hidden.

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I/HER Film 06

I/HER

Director, Cinematographer, Editor, & Writer · 2025 · 4:38

After accidentally running over a woman, a young driver becomes consumed by the incident, spiraling into a surreal and haunting descent where she can no longer tell what’s real and what’s in her head.

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My Writing

Nonfiction

Hard to Hold

A memoir about learning to trust after growing up around the thick air of violence. The piece follows a young woman who built emotional distance as a survival strategy, watching her mother's marriage teach her that closeness could be dangerous. It traces her slow, uneven progress toward real intimacy, first through a friendship she was too afraid to name, then through a relationship that finally asks her to let someone in without flinching.

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Academic Essay

Desire and Disillusionment: Exploring the Happy Few

A film analysis of Eric Rohmer's Claire's Knee (1970), examining how the film's central characters chase connection while remaining unable to act on it. The essay looks at Jerome's contemplative paralysis and the contrasting dynamics of Claire and her sister Laura, arguing that Rohmer uses their unfulfilled desires to explore the tension between personal longing and social restraint.

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Fiction

The World is Not Ours

A period romance about two young noblewomen, Ami and Vera, drawn together across rival kingdoms during a fragile political alliance. Their bond deepens in secret, but Vera's arranged marriage forces her away, and the story follows what's left behind: a string of letters, a woman waiting for a love that duty won't allow to return.

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