Color My Grey Street (Drama) | Finding peace in grey

A Brooklyn-based painter is urged by her therapist to explore the emotional synastry between her recent breakup and unresolved childhood trauma. As memories surface and art becomes her refuge, she’s forced to confront how deeply her past continues to shape her present identity — both as an artist and as a person. Color My Grey Street is an intimate character study about anxiety, emotional inheritance, and the quiet work of healing. Through painting, therapy, and reflection, the film explores the “grey zone” between emotional extremes — where growth, self-awareness, and acceptance begin to take root. SUBSCRIBE for Your Daily Dose of Inspiration ➠ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpa2QppVwCuivaWe5qfVY_Q SUBMIT your film ➠ https://filmshortage.com/submit/ A FILM SHORTAGE SELECTION "Color My Grey Street" is a drama short film Directed by Rose Sutton Starring Priyanka Kedia Director’s Statement: Color My Grey Street holds deep personal value to me. I’ve struggled with anxiety for much of my life — anxiety often shaped by family conflict and instability. As a result, I leaned on art and music as tools for healing. Like me, Ama relies on her paintings to navigate troubling experiences and emotional patterns formed in childhood. Ama is a black-and-white thinker, yearning for clarity while stuck in a grey emotional space. The film explores distorted perceptions shaped by childhood trauma, the urge to externalize pain, and the slow realization that healing often comes from within. Ama needs the force of a breakup to finally look her past straight in the eye — to recognize herself fully as both an artist and a human being. This story reflects themes of yearning, desire, emotional numbness, and an artist searching for answers that already exist inside herself. Whether Ama paints her self-portrait in black, white, or grey, she comes to understand that art is not escape — it’s reclamation. Creating this film was healing for me, and I hope audiences can resonate with using art as a means of growth, empowerment, and inner peace. https://letterboxd.com/film/color-my-grey-street/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28651358/ #FilmShortage #DramaShortFilm #IndieFilm FILM SHORTAGE ON SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: https://instagram.com/filmshortage Twitter: https://twitter.com/filmshortage Facebook: https://facebook.com/filmshortage Website: https://filmshortage.com Film Shortage is home to the next generation of filmmakers, premiering some of the best and diverse short films online