Sabrina La Macchia was born in Messina in 2001. She moved to Rome in 2020 to attend the RUFA (Rome University of Fine Arts) from which she graduated in 2024. During her studies she directed Lovely (2020), Ladro di Fiori (Flower thief, 2021) and Latte e Biscotti (Milk and Cookies, 2024), three short-films which as a common thread the themes linked to the typical disillusionment of the age transition between adolescence, idyllic and romantic, and adulthood, through a delicate, elegant and feminine language.

“Milk and Cookies” is a reinterpretation of the tale “Little Red Riding Hood”, used as a metaphor for a rape episode. The reality and the fairytale mix together across the story, converging in the end in a single line that shows the overcoming of a trauma using art. A gothic fairytale with bittersweet tones. The short film was born from the need to tell a story, experienced firsthand, which is still all too common and normalized these days. Especially recently, through phrases that have entered the public domain, such as “if you avoid getting drunk, you avoid the wolf”, we need to realize that the tendency to blame the victim of violence, rape, aggression or harassment is a reality that must necessarily be overturned. Movies and shorts like this one are a small starting point, and it is my intimate and very personal way of helping all women who have experienced, and experience similar situations every day, find even just comfort in seeing themselves in a fairy tale common to all, children and grown ups. I want to remind all the victims that no matter how bad the Wolf may be, Little Red Riding Hood will sooner or later manage to get out of his belly and shine bright again.