BEFORE I FORGET

By Toni D'ANTONIO

SHAKE THE TREE PRODUCTIONS, LLC - as PROD

Drama - Development 2025

You don’t have to remember someone to be unforgettable.

    • Year of production
    • 2025
    • Genres
    • Drama, Female director, Family
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH-UNITED STATES
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Toni D'ANTONIO
    • Writer(s)
    • Toni D'ANTONIO, Nicole MARLEY
    • Producer(s)
    • Toni D'ANTONIO (SHAKE THE TREE PRODUCTIONS, LLC)
    • Synopsis
    • Three women from different generations, a young mother, a wealthy matriarch, and a forgotten grandmother, each face the relentless progression of Alzheimer’s. As their lives unravel, their families, once strangers, find unlikely solace in shared grief inside the walls of the same memory care facility. Before I Forget is a haunting, intimate portrait of love, loss, and the slow erasure of self.

      As the women decline, connections are formed, awkward at first, then real. A shared flower bouquet. A conversation about memory. A dance no one remembers starting. And finally, a kind of grace in the recognition that though the disease takes everything, it also quietly binds those left behind.
       
      While none of the women survive to the final frame, their collective story remains, a cry for visibility, a testament to caregiving, and a fierce, aching reminder of what it means to remember, and to be remembered. It’s not about how they lived, it’s about how they disappeared…And now how we, the ones who remember, are the ones left changed forever.