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43,000 Feet
Shorts - Fiction 2
Old Town Playhouse
Sat, Aug 4, 2012 3:00 PM
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.
When statistician John Wilkins is sucked out of a plane at 43,000 feet, he calculates that he has exactly 3 minutes and 48 seconds before he hits the ground.
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