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Sunday, June 14
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Plumped

Co-Directors

Nora DeLigter, Faye Tsakas

Executive Producers

Alexandra Dale, Kathleen Flood, Matt Cherchio, Bryn Mooser

Producers

Nora DeLigter, Faye Tsakas, Justin Lacob

Editor

Maxwell Mueller

Contact

Justin Lacob

Inspired by Les Blank’s seminal short film GAP-TOOTHED WOMEN (1987), PLUMPED is an honest, direct-to-camera survey film in which women speak candidly about their experiences with lip filler. Where Blank’s film centers on a natural physical trait — one women are born with — PLUMPED shifts its focus to something manufactured: the distinctly modern, near-instant transformation made possible through medical intervention, and the promise of gratification that comes with it.

In doing so, the film traces how beauty standards have shifted since 1987 toward the normalization of artificial enhancement. Through testimonies from women across a range of backgrounds, PLUMPED explores why they sought out lip fillers, how the procedure made them feel, and how it shaped their lives. Together, these voices create a portrait of contemporary beauty culture — how standards are learned, internalized, embodied, and resisted.

Content Warning: This film contains visual references to blood, needles and cosmetic body modification.
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Nora DeLigter

Co-director, Plumped

Nora DeLigter is a filmmaker and writer based in New York City. Her directing and producing work has screened at festivals including the Hamptons International Film Festival, Montclair Film Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, DC/DOX Film Festival, and Rooftop Films. Her film won the jury prize for Best Documentary Short at the Montclair Film Festival, and her work has been distributed and featured by Vimeo Staff Picks and NOWNESS.

Nora’s written work explores micro-obsessions and fringe behaviors in contemporary culture, from embedding with a cult in Bed-Stuy to polling strangers on how—and why—they steal from Whole Foods Market, to documenting small-town soap operas like the Springs General Store saga. Her work has been published by New York Magazine, Screen Slate, and Vogue. Nora is a graduate of the UnionDocs Documentary Lab and holds a bachelor’s degree in writing and comparative literature from Bard College.

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Faye Tsakas

Co-director, Plumped

Faye Tsakas is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles and the co-founder of Wait A While Films. Her directing work has screened at South by Southwest Film Festival, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, True/False Film Fest, AFI Fest, Camden International Film Festival, Champs-Élysées Film Festival, Rooftop Films, and Palm Springs International ShortFest, among others, and has been featured by The New York Times Op-Docs, The New Yorker, Vimeo Staff Picks, Nowness, Aeon, Short of the Week, and Le Cinéma Club.

She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2023 and a Vimeo Breakout Creator in 2025. In 2024, she was a Film Independent Fast Track Producing Fellow and an American Film Institute Cinematography Intensive for Women Fellow. Most recently, she produced UNION COUNTY, which premieres at the Sundance Film Festival in 2026, and served as story producer and cinematographer on Amazon Studios’ forthcoming docuseries MURDER 101, which will also premiere at Sundance Film Festival in 2026. She previously served as Vice President of Development & Production at Passage Pictures and as Director of Acquisitions & Production at FilmRise. Faye received her MFA in Documentary Film & Video from Stanford University.

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