Connecting with the conversations we direct within, New York-based filmmaker Zen Pace considers how artistic expression lays down roots in childhood for short film Little Mirror. Exploring the therapeutic practice of inner child work, the film reflects how early experiences can initiate an artist’s journey, and the emergence of creativity in the pursuit of understanding.

Told through NYC multimedia artist Cavier Coleman, Little Mirror follows a coming-of-age-story, illustrating the innocence of youth against the fragmented pieces of an artist's psyche. Identifying their struggles with personal demons as a shared entry-point to reclaiming their lives through art, Pace and Coleman approached the film as a cathartic process, with the intention to inspire inner conversation in its viewers.

Collaborating with Ewurakua Dawson-Amoah to develop a poetic form that flows through the film, Pace creates a dreamlike space where art and reality blur. Depicting Coleman in dialogue with his child self, Little Mirror centers an introspective journey through the complexities of self-discovery – where art presents a refuge from the stresses and constraints encountered in life.