I'm Fine (Thanks for Asking) is a 2021 American indie film co-written and directed by Kelley Kali and Angelique Molina, marking their feature length debut.
Set during the COVID-19 pandemic, the recently widowed Danny (Kali) is fighting to find $200 by the end of the day to secure housing in California for her eight-year-old her and her daughter Wes (Wesley Moss), whom she has told have been camping in a tent “for adventure”.
[4] The film was shot in ten days and to help overcome problems with the COVID-19 pandemic and the constraints of the budget, the directors Kelley Kalli and Angelique Molina who also co-wrote the script with Roma Kong, included themselves and members of the crew in the cast, and called in favours from performer friends.
[8] David Jenkins in Little White Lies described it as “well-intentioned if slight and derivative” with “cold digital photography instantly creating a visual shorthand for that period of post-pandemic malaise”.
[9] Tara Brady in The Irish Times praised cinematographer Becky Baihui Chen for creating a “pleasing tableaux from the constant movement”, which included “a bravura set piece with a puddle.”[10] The film won the special jury prize at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2021.