In a Whisper, Not a Scream: An Interview with Lorena Alvarado on Lost Chapters

Premiering all the way back during 2024’s festival season, Lorena Alvarado’s Lost Chapters has been a film I’d been looking forward to for quite some time. Being a part of the Omnes Films collective guaranteed some level of excellence in my mind, but I wasn’t prepared for just how special Alvarado’s film actually is.  Originally conceived as a documentary about her father’s bookstore, Alvarado reconfigured Lost Chapters into a metafiction starring her family. Her sister, father, and grandmother all star as...