"Spoon-fed Addiction" by Silvano Williams
"Best Adapted Screenplay"
A haunting psychological drama dissecting trauma's afterlife and the myths it births.
In 1995 Houston, dealer Adiran fractures after accidentally killing girlfriend Veronica in a peyote ritual. Two years of guilt erupt in a hallucinatory night of vengeance—targeting Jessica's corrupt sheriff father—culminating in "enlightening" her sheltered sister Angela with toxic intimacy.
Through Angela's diary, Adiran's collapse reassembles as tragic romance: She romanticizes his violence without witnessing it, completing his cycle. Told in four acts mirroring trauma's wound, descent, delusion, and infection, Spoon-fed Addiction dismantles redemption via shadows, silence, and fragmented memory.
Perspectives warp truth—Adiran's memory, Jessica's witness, Angela's imagination—proving pain outlives its carriers through retellings. The film ends where the next myth begins: Trauma doesn't die with the body, only with silence.