Wait 'til the Wolves Make Nice
Jessica dela Merced
Drama | United States | 2015 | 11min
Confronting boredom in a crumbling southwest Detroit neighborhood, four young kids are tempted into sacrilege and destruction by the cool apathy of the older new kid in town.
Jacarre Woodruff, Tyler Ward, Daron Colbert, Kahari Benson, Miles Houser
JESS DELA MERCED is a Filipina American writer/director from San Francisco. Jess graduated from NYU’s Graduate Film program, where she received the Spike Lee Fellowship and wrote and directed her short film HYPEBEASTS under Spike Lee's mentorship. Her short film PHONY was executive produced by Paul Feig, and is now in development as a TV series with Feig and Powderkeg producing.
Jess is a 2021 Sundance Episodic Lab participant. Her short WAIT ‘TIL THE WOLVES MAKE NICE premiered at the SXSW Film Festival. She was a director in the Disney ABC directing program and one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Her feature script CHICKENSHIT is a San Francisco Film grant recipient, a Hamptons Screenwriters Lab participant, and was also selected for the Breaking Through the Lens initiative at Cannes.
