Gloss Finish(2025)
GABI WANTS TO DANCE but is haunted by her excessively sweaty hands, so she sets out to find a clammy dance partner who shares her glistening plight!GLOSS FINISH is a documentary about hands that drip. ☔ Other selling points include: beginner's tango, jumper cables, housewives and gothic flair! Gloss Finish, the latest short documentary from emerging filmmaker Gabi Maffey, is set to premiere at the 2025 Show Me Shorts Film Festival. Perspiration! Gloss Finish is a personal yet playful exploration of the stigma surrounding sweat and what it means to live with a 'gloss finish’.💎 Tender, absurd and fabulously damp, Gloss Finish follows Gabi — a woman with hyperhidrosis (a medical condition causing excessive sweating) — as she searches for a tango partner who shares her damp plight. Armed with anecdotes, heart, and stunning set design, the film transforms a rarely discussed condition into a glamorous ode to feeling different. xox This documentary is for people who sweat the small stuff, who sweat it BIG time - until tiny beads of inner doom fill up and spew out your sides…you know? Xox
