This group of stunningly crafted shorts trades in high drama and mounting tension as the films’ protagonists are forced to make difficult decisions. Featuring a cast of Somali refugees, “Asad” follows a young boy faced with a choice between falling in with pirates or living an honest, humble life; while in the drug ballad “Narcocorrido,” a pill-popping cop finds herself in over her head after a border shakedown goes awry; and in “Unmanned,” a young drone pilot living thousands of miles away from the warzone gets a harsh wake-up call in the aftermath of an errant missile strike.
43,000 Feet Campbell Hooper | 2012 | New Zealand | 9 min.
Asad Bryan Buckley | 2012 | USA | 18 min.
Narcocorrido Ryan Prows | 2011 | USA | 24 min.
Under Mark Raso | 2011 | Canada | 23 min.
Unmanned Casey Cooper Johnson | 2011 | USA | 22 min.