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Reviews
Yellow Rose (2019)
This film takes you thru every emotion except disappointment
This story about a girl who chases her American dream in the face of unrelenting hardship is a hero's journey. The director and cast masterfully guide us while playing every heart string. I laughed I gasped I cried I swore and I cheered. Bravo.
Tracks (2015)
beautiful, haunting, and inspiring
This short film written by Enzo Marc and directed by Mark Monroe captures the exquisite pain and stress experienced by too many young people today. Surrounded by an achievement-oriented culture, cruel peers, and clueless "grown ups", a student struggles to meet his parents' expectations, stay true to himself, and just keep his head above the mean waters of high school. The writer & director present us two possible outcomes of this situation. Which one will we choose as a community? Society? as individuals? What if each of us reached beyond our boundaries and made a human connection? I'd call that changing the world.
Now We're Here (2013)
powerful punch in an impactful vignette
Here is my take on a logline for this film: a man faces an inflection point in his life, to choose the life he knows or forge a new path. Two fresh new actors, Enzo Marc and Michelle Pigott bring energy and life to a sparse yet impactful story. The story is told with few words, like a haiku. But the images are haunting, with wisely chosen scenes. One of the most memorable was the scene of the protagonist walking up a staircase. The camera angle and lighting, the look on the actor's face communicate so much in this deceptively simple shot: like walking to your own crucifixion. You get the sense that he must walk, and he must participate in the awful ritual. Another of my favorite scenes is at the end, and the camera angles up through the glass coffee table, past a gun, to reveal the face of the conflicted protagonist. The original sound track enlivens the scenes without overpowering them. Charles Niblack does some wonderful camera work, that slowly reveals the story, like an unfolding, not jarring or forced. i love short films like short stories, when done right as in this film, they can pack a lot of punch in a short amount of time. This short but powerful vignette is worth a watch. i'm looking forward to more by this team of artists.