ADULTS is a tender and restrained dramatic film about a chronically irresponsible young adult, Guy, whose life is turned upside down when his ex-girlfriend dies in a car accident. Guy is left to care for her surviving child, Bernard, and the full crushing weight of adult responsibility unwittingly piles onto him all at once. While he struggles to rise to the challenge, his efforts are undercut by his grief and the constantly resurfacing memories of his interpersonal failures—manifest in the face of the son he abandoned at birth. This video is a short promotional piece that is a "visual logline" for the feature project I am currently in-development on.
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“ADULTS” PROOF-OF-CONCEPT SHORT

STARRING
Jayden Greig
Dayleigh Nelson

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ryan Knight

PRODUCERS
Liz May + Patrick Quinn

ORIGINAL MUSIC
Aimee Bessada + Chris Reineck

EDITOR
Gloria Tong

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Martin Plourde

ADULTS

Feature / Drama / in-development

After the unexpected death of his ex-girlfriend, a floundering and chronically irresponsible young adult is forced to take responsibility for her orphaned son. Adults is a tender and restrained drama about a father and son both forced to simultaneously grieve and re-imagine what it means to be “grown up”.

Adults is a feature film currently in-development, seeking collaborators and funding partners. For more information, or to read the screenplay, please contact me.

In this short teaser of the feature film (above), Guy and Bernard return home after the funeral, and Guy becomes overwhelmed by Bernard’s natural curiosity and efforts to understand the loss of his mother. Guy makes a desperate escape, and leaves Bernard home alone. Trying to take responsibility for himself, Bernard draws his own bath before heading to bed, but is interrupted when Guy returns home drunk. It is in this moment that Guy’s veneer of maturity crumbles, and Bernard takes on the role of caregiver to his fragile guardian.

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