ullanta
Veteran
Well, we had a near-disastrous 48-hour film competition experience, losing our writer on Friday night and getting a phone call right before shooting was to start on Saturday informing us that our lead actor had had a stroke (he's OK!)... but with the help of many neighbors and DVXUsers own Doc Bernard, we pulled something off...
This is the original version, we're finalizing an extended version. Our story was a bit much for 7 minutes, so... we have this cheat sheet with a little backstory...:
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TEN YEARS AGO
Faced with hospital bills incurred by desperate attempts to save his dying wife, Antonio sold priceless family heirlooms to the antique dealer he works for. These wedding mantas (woven shawls) had been handed down by the women of his Bolivian family for 300 years.
Embarrassed by his inability to save his wife or support his family in an American lifestyle, and rejected by his deceased wife’s family, he became estranged from his daughters Erica, Anna, and Nina.
ONE YEAR AGO
Hearing about Nina’s upcoming wedding, and knowing that the ancient mantas had not yet been resold by his employer, Antonio snuck the heirlooms out of the warehouse and, unable to face his daughters in person, left them with his late wife’s sister Nancy, with whom his daughters had lived.
NOW
His employer has finally sold the mantas for a very high price, only to discover them missing – and a heartbroken Antonio is faced with the painful choice between ruining his kindhearted employer and passing something of his heritage on to his estranged daughters.
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The genre was "Road Movie"; the prop, a pillow, and the character... "Luis Porter, antiques dealer".
Anyway... it's at http://ullanta.com/filmworks/heirlooms
This is the original version, we're finalizing an extended version. Our story was a bit much for 7 minutes, so... we have this cheat sheet with a little backstory...:
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TEN YEARS AGO
Faced with hospital bills incurred by desperate attempts to save his dying wife, Antonio sold priceless family heirlooms to the antique dealer he works for. These wedding mantas (woven shawls) had been handed down by the women of his Bolivian family for 300 years.
Embarrassed by his inability to save his wife or support his family in an American lifestyle, and rejected by his deceased wife’s family, he became estranged from his daughters Erica, Anna, and Nina.
ONE YEAR AGO
Hearing about Nina’s upcoming wedding, and knowing that the ancient mantas had not yet been resold by his employer, Antonio snuck the heirlooms out of the warehouse and, unable to face his daughters in person, left them with his late wife’s sister Nancy, with whom his daughters had lived.
NOW
His employer has finally sold the mantas for a very high price, only to discover them missing – and a heartbroken Antonio is faced with the painful choice between ruining his kindhearted employer and passing something of his heritage on to his estranged daughters.
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The genre was "Road Movie"; the prop, a pillow, and the character... "Luis Porter, antiques dealer".
Anyway... it's at http://ullanta.com/filmworks/heirlooms
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