Yellow Moths

Log Line: When a husband sexually assaults their kid. A mother delves into the past at the
moment before it happened to try to stop it.

Director’s Statement

Yellow Moths came out of a necessity to tell the story of what my grandma
went through as a mother. My dad is the youngest of four children, he has two
older brothers and one sister, and his parents split early in his life. He never had a
good relationship with his mother until later, and as a result, I never got
close to my grandma for a good portion of my life. Everything in my family was
kept hush and no one talked about anything, especially not the past. It wasn’t until
my grandma opened up to me about what she went through that I fully understood everything. She told
me that my two oldest uncles were molested by their father, my grandpa, whom I
never met. She told me she locked herself in the house and went insane trying to
figure out why she had failed as a mother. Yellow Moths came about to honor and
tell the story of what my grandma went through, she went through something
terrible, and the pain on her face told it. I am using this film to call back and
connect with my grandma through memories. Overall, It stands as a statement not only for her, but for
people going through sexual assault and knowing that there is always a way out of
the cold, dark place it puts you in.

-Bailey Childress, director, “Yellow Moths