Who will save this 10 year old boy from execution?
‘The Art of Human Salvage’ is a steam-punk science fiction short film that takes places in the nearby future, and where ‘The Corporation’ has replaced the government. Free expression is a serious crime, enforced by brutal secret police called Slingers, those that create photography in the shadows risk execution, which can only be saved by a Salvation Officer.
When I read the feature film script written by Ted Dewberry, I was blown away. I knew I wanted to make this movie, and needed to start with a short to introduce this dystopian world to my audience
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The film stars Edward James Olmos (Blade Runner
Dempsey Tilman also worked on such projects as The Avengers
After reading the feature screenplay I had all these ideas zooming around in my head. But I knew that to make a good short film I had to focus these wonderful images into something that could work for a short film. Something that could grasp and hold an audience for 10 minutes and also be something that people would say „wow, I want to see more“. Coming up with something like that took a little time but working with Ted, the writer, we were able to hammer it out on paper within a few weeks.
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