Back/Forward

The gritty tale of Ben (Phil Avallone; New Phoenix Theater, Shakespeare in Delaware Park), a down on his luck panhandler who lives a solitary existence. Scraping a living from the pity of strangers, Ben is untrusting, resentful, and bitter until chance encounters with an eccentric street musician (Joe Giambra; Buffalo 66, Manna From Heaven) and a young college student (Jeanne Lisk) spark a memory of happier times. Was it accident? Was it fate? Either way Ben's destiny will change forever.
Official Selection at the Little Theatre Emerging Filmmaker Series.

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Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• drama
• panhandler
• musician
• argument
• death
• comedy

[monkeyman1006]

i liked it

i saw where you were going with your visual decisions

I t was pretty good!

[Neuralclone]

Thanks for your kind feedback.

[patchard]

Only had time to watch the first 2 min. Sorry. It looks good, but watch the jump cuts in the opening. Do you have a master of the opening shots? I don't really know where I am yet. So that would help. Some of the camera work is shoddy, and underexposed. But it's not the end of the world.

[Neuralclone]

The video was processed to look like that. I wanted a drowned out color scheme. The lack of master shot was intentional. I don't want the viewer to know where they are right away. Camera work is shakey on purpose too.

[Quics]

so bad shortfilm

[vmark1230]

Well this was really depressing to me... but it provoked the feeling from me and I do not really know your intent was, but it I was able to stay glued to it the whole time. I thought I seen a glimmer hope for the guy and at some level hoped he would attain this. But in the end it was not so... that's life sometimes.

[projectdc1]

Excellent film all the way around Chuck. Great performances, girl aside, which she obviously has stated her position on that. Great shots, great palette, and an interesting story. Always a pleasure to watch your work Chuck!

[LadyRobinHood]

Yep, yep, I'm well aware that that was probably the shittiest work I've ever done :) I just can't pull off the ditzy girl routine :-P There are a couple other things I've done up on youtube, and next year there will thankfully be more so no one thinks too badly of me in this nightmare scripted short! After a while of thinking about it I realize that I just should've screwed the attempted ditz routine and done it well, bu it's a well-done piece overall, thankfully :)

[placeourbets]

"see this, go bust that" AWSOME

[DasKapital]

Pretty good dude. Some shooty camera work here and there. Just a little more practice. The main character reminded me a lot like Billy brown from buffalo '66. He was a really good actor, as well as the old man was really good. The girl wasn't very good at all. And some of the dialouge was repeated too much. But it was still pretty good.