In this edition of the Short Film Spotlight, I highlight a short film that was a part of the Berlinale Talent Campus, a six-day creative summit for filmmakers and film professionals that takes place during the Berlin Film Festival (It’s a great program to check out, if you’re in the film industry). ON TIME is a great little sci-fi short, in the vein of classic Rod Serling’s TWILIGHT ZONE. A bittersweet story of heartbreak, the mysterious man with the briefcase poses the age old question, “what would you do if you can see the future?”
Directed by LA based Ted Chung and written by Canadian David Bradley Halls, this a short film that was part of a film exercise at the Talent Campus, as part of the Garage Flicks program, where four projects were selected, an international team was formed for each project, and they basically had 24 hours to shoot on one stage, the Garage Studio, in a marathon round of filmmaking, one after another on one stage. ON TIME was the best one of the bunch (You can see the others over at the Talent Campus Youtube channel). So without further adieu, here’s ON TIME:
What a coincidence, I just viewed this on Vimeo last night… per a friend’s recommendation to view Ted Chung’s “A Thousand Words.”
Ted’s got some good stuff going. I’d say to check out his Vimeo page and view “A Thousand Words” as well.
[...] HAWAII FIVE-O’s Brian Yang. I also featured one of Chung’s short films in a previous Short Film Spotlight. His take on an everyman thrown into a labyrinthine world of alternate realities was intriguing and [...]