NYFA Filmmaking Alumni Kai Kaldro’s thesis short film “Dissolved Girl” Lands on Amazon Prime

New York Film Academy (NYFA) is excited to announce that Dissolved Girl from NYFA alumni Kai Kaldro is now available to stream on Amazon Prime. Kaldro describes the short film as a “sci-fi ‘cyberpunk’ manifesto that sees New York City during an era of political and cultural war between man & machine. 

The 20 year old filmmaker is originally from Brooklyn, New York and says that he knew he wanted to make movies from a very young age. Since graduating from NYFA's New York campus in September of 2020, he's had two short films make the festival rounds and has subsequently worked as an editor/VFX artist on a music video for indie pop-rock singer/songwriter Pam Steebler’s single Noise, releasing later this summer.

Director Kai Kaldro 

Kai Kaldro with fellow NYFA Alum & "Dissolved Girl" lead Alexandra Faye Sadeghian

Kaldro is heavily influenced by the "cyberpunk" sub-genre and strives to create work that has alluring atmospheres, compelling action and visual effects. 

"It’s become something of a prerequisite for science fiction stories to try and predict the future or be ahead of their time, often set in a distant year that we’ll all eventually reach, and then on the day, utter a lot sardonic disillusionment about because there are no flying cars and robots; Dissolved Girl is not intended to be ahead of its time, it’s intended to define it’s time, which is why it’s set in our current year of 2021 - but of course a different 2021 with a different, yet similar history proceeding it."

Kaldro says he was able to use the skills he learned at NYFA to create elaborate lighting set ups with minimal resources and a strict budget. He is currently working on two feature length films, one being the feature version of Dissolved Girl.

Check out the trailer and the entire short on Amazon Prime