**Winner for Best Live Action Short at the OSCAR QUALIFYING 2025 St Louis International FF,  Winner, Programmer's Choice Award for Best Short Film at the 2026 Cleveland International FF, and Best Live Action Short nominee at the 2025 Raindance FF, Magan’s Fare explores themes of moral responsibility through the lens of our treatment of older adults, particularly the egregious, ongoing practice of patient dumping.​ The film is a “conversation” about the compartmentalization of our compassion for others and how we distinguish who receives our kindness and who does not. 

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With Magan’s Fare, we wanted to explore the idea of individual moral responsibility; the challenge of true empathy towards those in need outside our familiar “box”. The story centers around two first-generation immigrants and former refugees; Magan, a pragmatic, family man, ride-share driver from Somalia, and Jorani, an older nursing home patient. When Magan drives Jorani back to her nursing home only to find that they are kicking her out, he must figure out what to do with her. For Magan, Jorani is a fare, a means to his real monetary needs. As they spend more time together, however, Magan becomes personally invested in her fate. As we the audience identify more and more with Magan’s increasingly difficult situation, we question our communal responsibilities to one another. And through Magan, we are inspired to look more closely at our own capacity for compassion.​

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***The feature film version of Magan's Fare is currently in development. ​