Changes
After Laura Neulip outs her bully she is cornered into lying about what really happened in order to save the reputation of the schools star athlete. In an effort to clear things up, the Neulip’s invite the family over for dinner, but find themselves in a messy situation. CHANGES is a spectacular, ambitious, and extremely satisfying short script written by Matthew Bryan and brought to life by Rhiannon Thomas, Stephanie Carpentieri, Gabriel Grier, Robinson Walsh, Julian Vlcan, and introducing Rayne Potter as the narrator.
Credits
Written by: Matthew Bryan
Directed by: Gary Jones
Produced by: Awfully Good Media
Cast
Narrator: Rayne Potter
Laura: Rhiannon Thomas
Alice: Stephani Carpentieri
David:Gabriel Grier
Tyler: Robinson Walsh
Ben: Julian Vlcan
Sound Supervisor and Editor: Ryan Gottshall
Recorded at Spacewalk Sound
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Music
Animal Assassins – Colorado 1864
Firework Festival – Game Changer ft. Robin Hawkin
Half Light – From Below
Joel Porter – St. Anthony
THE BEST IS YET TO COME
Injured dancer, Ella, is consumed by her desire to be prepared for an upcoming performance.
Forgoing rest and convalescence, Ella pushes through physical pain and mental exhaustion to perfect her routine. In doing so, she leads a solitary existence, where nothing can deter her from being the best she can be.
'The Best Is Yet to Come' reinterprets the symbols of passion, persistence, and fragility of an athlete as a human being. It explores the never-ending pursuit for greatness and ultimately how we must be resilient and connect with both our past and present experiences to successfully move forward.
Sean (cinematographer) and I self-funded the project and it was purely a labour of love. Before writing this project, I was struggling to find time and energy to give to my own personal work, I wasn’t 100% sure what to create, all I knew is that I really wanted to show that behind every form of art, sport or business there’s a lot of hard work that goes into it. The most visual way I thought to portray this could be that of a dancer. I’ve always been obsessed with the idea of overnight success and the unknown struggle of an athlete’s resilience to achieve that success - they work extremely hard every day for their entire lives to achieve this one moment. I feel this piece tries to encapsulate that.
Sean Ryan shot on RED and lensed up with some vintage Super Balters, and minimal lighting which combined for a more atmospheric look. With the added score and sound design composed by Jonny Higgins, the film takes on an inspiring and upbeat pace from beginning to end, leaving us with such an aspiring feeling.
Originally we were going to go something more guitar driven and minimalistic but Jonny hit me with a couple of synths and things went 80’s pretty quickly. I feel like it is something unexpected and not traditional to most dance films.
Good Luck Have Fun: A Canadian 'eSports' Story
Three pro gamers, one nation and a community struggle to compete in the world of eSports – competitive video gaming.
I became fascinated with professional gaming while working as a sports journalist. It wasn’t uncommon to argue with colleagues about what constitutes a “real” sport, whether it be hockey, car racing, poker or chess. But when the topic of “eSports” (electronic sports) came across the news desk, there was a resounding, “NO!”
I wanted to give this community of competitors a fair shake, and so I set out to explore what makes something a sport, or what makes someone an athlete in today’s digital age, through the lens of this unique and rapidly growing cultural phenomenon.
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Small
The lives of an athlete turned caregiver and a recently wheelchair-bound carpenter are woven together in a story about emotional captivity, struggle, and creative escape.
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Sheng Qi
Breath of Life
Sheng Qi offers a moving vision and an intimate actual experience of effort in a sports competition.
The Olympics are a high-profile event which aims to celebrate the body in motion. While all eyes of the world are turned on the athletes and their exploits, the look of the athlete, for her part, is turned to within her own body. Listening to her inner movements, because that is where the real victory is, the athlete seeks to surpass herself.
All parts of the body, such as teamwork, are contributing. Muscles, tendons, joints, cells, respiration, which illustrate the body moves and throbbing, straining toward a single goal; arrive first at the finish line. Thought guides the movement: visualization, concentration, determination, motivation… It is this invisible and intangible energy that the Chinese mean by Sheng Qi, the breath of life, the life force.
Imperceptible and incessant movement inside the body is essential to life, which sport is an eloquent demonstration of.
This is what this short film would explore: to show that «the essential is invisible», the beauty and poetry in the images of the body fighting, which focuses its energy and strength to serve sport.
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