A collegiate rower’s violent fantasies about her abusive coach take center stage in “I Think About Killing You,” a new psychological thriller making its world premiere at Tribeca Festival on June 4.

Writer-director Ran Ran Wang draws from her own experience as an athlete for the 14-minute short. The story follows Dani, captain of a Division One rowing team, whose intrusive thoughts about killing her coach spiral when she’s pushed past her breaking point.

The film stars Tiana Le (“Insecure,” “Just Add Magic”) as Dani and Bridget Regan (“Agent Carter,” “John Wick”) as her coach. The cast also includes Charlie Morgan Patton and Miya Kodama.

Wang, whose feature screenplay “If I Had Your Face” made the 2023 Black List, says the film is “for anyone who has ever been an athlete, any woman who has ever had a complicated relationship with an older authority figure, and anyone who loves an anxiety-inducing thriller.”

“I Think About Killing You” comes from Rideback RISE, Dan Lin’s nonprofit accelerator for mid-career POC filmmakers. The program has hosted industry heavyweights like Issa Rae, Jon M. Chu, and Destin Daniel Cretton.

The short will screen three times during Tribeca: June 4 and June 11 at Spring Studios, and June 13 at AMC 19th Street.

This matters because it tackles a subject rarely explored on screen, rooted in the lived reality of women abused within institutional sports.