Lara Everly 🪩

Here she comes… SELAH will world premiere @tribeca on June 4, 2026. The screening for June 13th is already completely SOLD OUT so run to get your tickets before the other date does too. Link in bio

I don’t know how I never shared this on here before. Maybe it’s cause it was before reels. Maybe I was drowning in motherhood in a pandemic. But I realized today I never posted this video I made for @netflix in 2020. Mothermade - yes everyone that worked on this was a mom. It was a Covid headache, masks, half remote, throwing myself into shots, but we got it done...and it got over 20M views. Years later, thank you to my community of mamas for making this with me and showing what a mother can do. Director @laraeverly Producer @jstamen Co-Producer @vivi.vivivivi Writer Eliza Arnold Cinematographer @senda.bo Editor @libbycuenin Score @chad_fischer_music Voice Over @melissafumero Featuring @racheldoesstuff @rmorrison @yourpalbridget @krudykrudy @senda.bo @saudiarashed @lindseymeyerart @katcoiro @martamcross @melissafumero @laraeverly @kanyaiwana @marie_jamora @karaluiz @jaikalara_ @doulaprincess @laylametssitane @thewildwildwhit @meenasinghdp @slaysman @destineestewart_creates @seeuoo @nicolewhitaker.dp

We are thrilled to announce that @selah_the_film will have its world premiere at @tribeca . This film started at the Tribeca Chanel Through Her Lens program and we are honored to be launching it as an official selection of the festival. This film is indeed birthed from, made by, and breathing the female gaze. “Selah” was built on donations, filmed in three micro budget spurts, and a damn dog was adopted over it! The movie behind the movie is as wild as Selah’s journey and we can’t wait to share it all with you. This story is the manifestation of rage for what’s happening to women in the country and the physical and metaphorical distances girls need to go to feel safe in this country. Sometimes anti-facism comes in 4lb furry small packages. Starring: @birdiesilverstein @mintmilana @lauren_weedman Written and Directed by: @laraeverly Produced by: @halvinandcobbes @nanblum @briannasedor

Some behind the scenes snaps from our recent shoot in Arizona. So grateful to everyone working on @selah_the_film . This project has been anything but easy and I wouldn’t want to be waking up at 4am, sweating while directing from the trunk of a car and caravanning state lines with dogs with anyone else. @selah_the_film @chloeweaverdp @nanblum @briannasedor @therealalexcason @halvinandcobbes @davidgohome @phitrandesign @heidi4herstory @goldietolmach @juliavillew @plannedparenthood @tribecafilmins @littlewalnutproductions

Tom was very specific. 😂 We were models, not makers, but we survived the mall portrait moment and are here to post about it. ☁️💙☁️

TW: SA With the recent release of more Epstein files, I’ve been sitting with a lot. It made me think about my own experiences with sexual abuse at a young age, and of this video I directed in the heat of the #MeToo movement 9 years ago. (I realized I never shared it here in full because at the time IG capped videos at one minute). When we filmed this, every single woman who participated had to choose which story to tell - they all had more than one. I was advised to have them share the “milder” story….to keep it more palatable. Even within allyship, even with women at the helm, there was so much shushing. So much fear. The prod company that produced it ultimately refused to release it. They got cold feet. @refinery29 adopted it. I’m sharing it now because silence is how this keeps happening. Money and power depend on our discomfort. And we’ve been trained to stay quiet for far too long. Even now, I cringe admitting again that I was sexually assaulted as a child - by an elderly man. That’s how deep the conditioning runs. But I’m done being quiet. I’m done treating this platform as just a place for pretty pictures. We have to get comfortable with the deeply uncomfortable. We have to say it out loud. It’s time we stop whispering. It’s time we f*cking roar. Cinematographer: @pablo_berron Producer: @slmaverick @candicebknows @melissa_makes_movies Editor: @theregalistbeaglist @cutandrunedit

shedding lens @kanyaiwana final days of the 🐍

Akumal in landscape

This creature is 10. No one has taught me more about love than him - not only because he cracked me open to a new depth of connection, but because of the way he moves through the world. His emotional intelligence rivals most adults. He is centered. Compassionate. Intelligent. He believes in equity so deeply he makes sure the animals get equal pets. He thinks, plays and dreams baseball. He loves adventure…always brave and open minded. He carries statistics in a lockbox mind and leads with a heart of gold. You are my greatest teacher. I love you, Leo Kahlil.

Designed, not default. Rendering a better reality for 2026. Happy New Year lovers.

Somehow, it’s fitting to be sharing this on the darkest night of the year even though I wrote this in the summer. I want to crawl out of my skin sharing this essay and these images, and yet I’m making a conscious point to do so because this whole year has been about releasing old paradigms of self-worth (and I realized the magazine has a hefty paywall so only the committed will take the plunge to read my full essay). My way of alchemizing hard things is to do something creative so when divorce and breast cancer collided this year - I wrote about it and I asked my remarkably talented friend @kanyaiwana whose eye embodies the female gaze to take some photographs of me topless before surgery. We drew where the titanium markers were inside me at the time marking the cancer. I’m now in totally different place. This weekend I was showing my radiation burn marks to girlfriends in a “look at my cool scar” attitude, remarking how I skimmed cancer’s surface like a rock skipping the water. It’s been a series of sliding doors choices and angel timing and I’ve held onto maximum parts of me. So here’s a tiny shrapnel of the hardest collision I’ve tackled down yet. In the darkness I was remade. Link in bio. 🔗 Wildfire Magazine.