YES, MISTRESS Fundraising Campaign

YES, MISTRESS is a character-driven narrative centred around Andi, a mild-mannered international student with dreams of being an astrophysicist. Except, through an uncharacteristic oversight, she overstays her visa and faces an impossible choice: go “home” to nothing, stay as an illegal or get married. In a desperate move, she enters into a tenuous green card marriage with her friend with benefits, the guy she wants who doesn’t want her back. To pay for this tangled arrangement, Andi learns just how far she will go - literally into the bowels of a BDSM dungeon - to keep her immigration status and hold on to the life she wants.

Everything about this film is vital. Written, directed by and starring a BIPOC immigrant woman over 40, YES, MISTRESS is about a dream and legacy. But more importantly, it's about immigration rights, gender and income inequality, identity and belonging, power, the marginalision of black women, and the monolithic perception of black femininity.

Less than 10% of the top 100 films of 2025 were made by women. Even less were BIPOC or an immigrant. Meanwhile, the Hollywood Diversity Report has consistently shown that diversity on the big screen sells. Support for this film will mean support for gender parity in film - over 50% of the cast and crew is female - uplifting underrepresented voices, and slicing through the news to remind audiences that immigrants, whatever their path, are just people. People who are smart, capable, hardworking and good, who just want a better life and the chance to live their dreams. If the headlines are the sledgehammer, this film is a scalpel, a sharp, taut love letter to immigrants, and anyone else in the margins.