Sundance short film ‘Taga’ creates horror from the search for belonging

Sundance short film ‘Taga’ creates horror from the search for belonging

Growing up as a mixed Filipina American in Lake Arrowhead, California, Jill Marie Sachs never felt like she belonged. Visiting the Philippines for the first time at 13 — meeting family members she never knew she had, eating ube birthday cake and singing karaoke — was transformational, giving her confidence she’d sorely missed. On that trip, her cousins dragged her to the beach in the middle of a rainstorm to tell monster stories from local folkl…