About Love Letter to Life
SYNOPSIS
Iman Dimalanta, a 21-year-old lymphoma cancer survivor, journaled all her thoughts through her entire cancer experience. With such a heavy topic, Iman provides a bright and uplifting energy to the screen. Her outlook on life and lighthearted, admirable, and joyful attitude deserves to be shared. Iman will take us through her story and paint a picture of the agony, relief, laughter, and cries she went through. Now in the healing stages of treatment, she reflects on the experience and has gone through losing friends, crying to sleep every night, learning to keep things light, and encouragement to be a good person overall.
Producer: Josie Hester
Director of Photography: Aaron Arao
Writer: Alex Couraud and Zoe Malen
Animator: Mayumi Dimalanta
About the Filmmaker
Zoe Malen recently graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno with her Bachelor’s in Journalism and an emphasis in film and media production. She has directed various short films, been a part of many creative projects, and strives to continue working on impactful work in the visual media arts. She aims to continue telling intimate and touching stories for the viewers. She has many more stories to tell and many more emotions to portray through film!
Call to Action
As Iman advises: “Things happen for a reason and it’s not that deep. You’re gonna be okay, and everything’s going to be okay. Every single day you should try to laugh, every single day you should be thankful for something, and every single day tell the people you love that you love them.”
She also reminds us: “Just be genuine, let people know. Just enjoy each other’s company while we’re still here together. Don’t be afraid to love!”
