Writer
Farbota has experience writing short and feature length screenplays, prose, and technical writing. Their writing is character driven, with attention to emotional truth from untold stories.
Feature Films
“Damage Ctrl” - Writer & Produer
A face from her past pushes high-strung grad student, Jule, and her deadbeat roommate to join forces, seek revenge, and unwittingly become a global vigilante duo scheming against sexual predators. The story explores unlikely friendships, the messy aftermath of sexual trauma, and the failings of our justice system through the lens of two unhinged vigilantes.
Damage Ctrl is in development with the Chicago International Film Festival CIX:Lab 2026.
Short Films
“Tagged” - Writer & Produer
In a dystopian near-future controlled by corruption and brainwashing tech, Kara and Lou battle scarcity, mistrust, and existential dread when they welcome an injured stranger into their bunker.
Tagged is currently in pre-production and will shoot in Spring, 2026.
“First (ish) Date” - Writer
Molly matched with Jess and they’ve been talking ever since. After weeks, they finally find a night to meet face to face. However, Molly is haunted by a persistent and horrifying figure: herself. Throughout the date she fends off the shameless apparition and basks in Jess’s calm. When a nostalgic video game strikes Jess’s nerve, Jess and Molly have to decide if they’re prepared to share their whole selves.
“I Used to Write with my Left Hand” - Co-Writer
Shame and violence have plagued the queer relatives of an Irish Catholic family on the Southside of Chicago. As the youngest of the family reckons with their own pain, they grasp at their inherited narrative in an attempt to redirect it. Poetic and personal, this short combines movement and language to tell a raw story of growth and family cycles.
