The short film “Order My Steps,” about a woman in prison reconnecting with her daughter, premieres in Pennsylvania this evening at the Media Film Festival, writes Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times.

The film, from sisters Kathryn and Meg Grant of Delaware County, has already been reviewed as a “19-minute short that packs an emotional wallop.”

“Order My Steps” follows incarcerated Peg Rives as she tries to reconnect with her daughter, Dorian, after a 20-year separation.

Carla Brandberg of “Orange Is the New Black,” and “Law and Order” plays Rives.

The Grant sisters grew up in Ridley Park kicked the film off with a 2022 backyard fundraiser.

Kathryn wrote the screenplay. It was co-produced by Meg Grant of Broomall, in

conjunction with Mulberry/Queens Films. It is directed by August Palmer.

“Their path is really a tough one,” Kathryn Grant said. “I see this character leaning on her faith and also very much aware of the inequity that she’s fallen into.”

The story began as a Zoom play until someone suggested it would make a great movie.

“I never made a movie but I thought I’d try,” Grant said. “I’m a playwright mainly.”

Read more about what inspired the film and about the message of “Order My Steps” in the Daily Times.