Instant Message ( Project Direct 2008 / 2009 Entry )

*Please watch in HD if you can... thank you!*

A little girl who is too often neglected by her family and turns to a friend she made online in a chat room. Do you know who your kids talk to online?

This movie is based on a short story which was based on real events.

This film was made for Project Direct for Sundance Film Festival 2009. Props used were red phone, basketball, headphones, VHS tape. The film was shot on my handheld camcorder the Panasonic SD9 and edited with Final Cut Pro.

CREDITS:

Jen Alexa Davidson
Jen's Mom Erica Handleman
Jen's Dad Leigh Sturgeon
John Nick Davidson
Creepy guy in park Todd Broadwater
Guy in park's friend John Coe
Paul Josh Davidson
911 operator Tema Broadwater
1st newspaper girl Victoria Broadwater
2nd newspaper girl Avery Broadwater

Directed by Josh Davidson & Leigh Sturgeon

Screenplay by Josh Davidson based on a story by CS Johnson

Produced & Edited by Josh Davidson

Score by Leigh Sturgeon & Josh Davidson

Camera Operators Leigh Sturgeon & Josh Davidson

Newspaper designed by Todd Broadwater


Music

Knocked Flat In The First Round - Karmellas Game

Pervert Pillow - Leigh Sturgeon

"Loss" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0"

Thanks to Leigh Sturgeon for letting me use the image of his movie "Weight" as well as saying to me 2 Wednesdays ago, hey let's make a movie this weekend" because if he hadn't said that, then I probably would have sat around watching football all weekend instead of making this movie!

Thank you to Todd for letting me "do it" with his wife in the back of a book store. Thanks to Mike Crawford for helping me with the opening titles and for putting me in his movie The Despair.

Thank you to Mike, Nasto, "Amazing" Sarah, Erica, John, Nick, Alexa, Carisa, Philly P & Sam, Tema, Todd, Leigh, Jason "my man in Tallahassee", and anyone else I may have forgotten to mention for your feedback and patience to watch the film over and over again. I hope everyone enjoys our little movie!

Category:

Film & Animation

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[xMatthewxOceanx]

I LOVE Karmellas Game, I just bought the same camera, is it good?

[kchertu]

Yeah, KG is awesome! Love those guys. The camera is great, I love it. If you watch my Romania stuff and also my Joker fan film, "The Hostage" on channel youtube/bmfcvp they were all also done with this camera. Trust me for some reason the conversion to You Tube did NOT do the image justice.

[dunmer2007]

Outstanding ending, I wish all rotten scum like that met similar (And much worst) fates!

[wtyazzie2000]

that was really good i really only have one problem; why does a 10 year old girl have a typing speed of like 3 word per minute lol

[bubbletyler]

that was pretty good it was a alittle scary at the end that what keep u in it

[autograssboy]

this should be on tc as an advert becasue this is one realy sick and bad thing that happends every day and it needs to stop and with an wicked ad like this it will help

[dactord]

Wow! Very good acting and story!

I will keep you both in mind for future projects!

[WhileUact]

Why are you doing this and the shadow steps into the light woohoo

[dean5683]

this is sick

[GirlsxGonexBad]

Wow. You must be very talented. And to think you can get a little girl who can act very well without laughing or messing up! You put very great things on here.

a fan-Jackie

[Moviebuff360]

wow that was really good!!! and i think im gonna buy that camera now lol

[ChocoCat300]

That scared me!