Guilt Cake | NextLens Online Film Festival 2025

Cypress works to surprise their grieving mother with a family recipe, she butts heads with Peter, who wants their mother to sign a document helping him secure a new place to live. Guilt Cake explores grief, sibling relationships, familial duty and the beautiful and tragic nature of moving on. 

SUBMITTED BY: Audrey Buffington is an actress and student at Wofford College.

The NextLens Online Film Festival showcases the talented and innovative aspiring filmmakers from South Carolina. With the minimum age of sixteen, honorees are selected from South Carolina high schools, colleges and universities. The online film festival will be held annually each Spring featuring some of the brightest producers and their creative short films.