Gift of Fear

Directed By Katy Dore and Jack Kohler

Mili watched her mother's murder 11 years ago. Mili now has a family with the Jiu Jitsu team, but the gang she once ran with decides to teach her a lesson. Now Mili must risk everything to save her friend from a life of sex trafficking.

  • ABOUT
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  • CREDITS

Native women are 10 times more likely to be murdered than the general population, this isn’t about statistics. For Mili, it’s very, very personal.

Mili shut down after seeing her mother murdered 11 years ago. Passed around the foster system for years, at 17 Mili thinks she finally found a family of sorts with the MMA Jiu Jitsu team. 

But her past refuses to stay in the past and the gang she once ran with decides to teach her a lesson by kidnapping her girlfriend.

Tribal cops and an agent from the Federal Missing and Murdered Unit is on the case, but Mili waited for authorities once…she won’t wait this time. 

Katy Dore is a Writer and Director in TV and Film. Katy was selected to the Cannes Screenplay List for her feature script PIPER. Her horror script, GOT YOUR BACK was honored with a Live Read at the Austin Film. Katy’s TV limited series about Mary Ellen Pleasant, titled THE UNSUNG, has production deals with Flavor Unit, Quincy Jones Productions and Goldmann Pictures. Katy writes in multiple formats and genres with the common thematic through-line that happiness/success can only be achieved by being who you really are. The feature film Katy directed and the short films she wrote and directed, have won numerous awards at film festivals all over the world. In her downtime, Katy enjoys body-boarding with her shimmer of mermaids, playing tennis or flyfishing.

NATIVE WOMEN IN FILM AND TELEVISION/ 2023

BOSTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL/ 2023

FIRST NATIONS FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL/ 2023

SAN FRANCISCO FROZEN FILM FESTIVAL/ 2023

RED NATION FILM FESTIVAL/2024

Best Director / Boston IFF/ 2023

Best Feature / Merced Queer FF / 2024

Best Director / Merced Queer FF / 2024

Best Production / Three Fires International Film Festival / 2023

Best Digital Feature Film / San Francisco Frozen Film Festival / 2023

Mili - Isa Antonetti

Manny - Justin Johnson Cortez

Koko - Laura Vallejo

Chance - Michael Horse