{"id":15747,"date":"2025-04-23T13:48:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T17:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/?p=15747"},"modified":"2025-04-23T13:48:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T17:48:49","slug":"short-film-tethered-by-alum-diran-shahrik-screens-this-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/blog\/short-film-tethered-by-alum-diran-shahrik-screens-this-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Short film\u00a0&#8216;Tethered&#8217; by Alum Diran Shahrik Screens this Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Diran-Shahrik1-edited.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Diran-Shahrik1-edited.webp 750w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Diran-Shahrik1-edited-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Diran-Shahrik1-edited-700x394.webp 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A new short film by Diran Shahrik (CGS\u201921, Questrom\u201923) called <em>Tethered <\/em>will be screening this Friday in Newton, MA. The film tells a story about a 17-year-old boy dealing with his father&#8217;s physical and emotional abuse. Moreover, it explores the complexities of having a parent with borderline personality disorder. Diran, who currently works in finance at Ernst &amp; Young, won best editing at the HBO-sponsored Official Latino Film &amp; Arts Festival for his work on<em> Picking Daisies. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the BU Today article by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/author\/sujena-soumyanath\/\">Sujena Soumyanath (COM\u201925)<\/a>, Dira says, &#8220;<em>Picking Daisies<\/em>\u00a0won [best edited film] at an HBO film festival, which was nice. But I remember after that\u2014it\u2019s so funny\u2014I told myself, \u201cI\u2019m not going to do this again. This is so much work. I want to focus on school and finance.\u201d But it\u2019s very addicting\u2014once you start, you kind of can\u2019t stop. 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