Backroom Facials - 13 - Faith Lou Finds Faith

The woman behind the character is a former theater student from Ohio named Louisa "Lou" Fernandez. In a rare interview with Lifestyle & Entertainment Weekly , she revealed that the series was born from a period of intense burnout.

Faith spends the first third of the short trying to "optimize" her escape. She maps the walls. She counts her steps. She tries to monetize the dread. The film’s director, Jess H. Miller, told us in a press release: "Faith is us on a Sunday night, trying to meal-prep our way out of existential terror." Backroom Facials - 13 - Faith Lou Finds Faith