PLAYBACK | Short Film Script

I began working on this short film script back in 2019, with the intent to submit a 7-10 minute short to the Nantucket Film Festival. My creative partner Ben Daniels, a resident of the island, had shared the experiences he had working at the festival and thought it would be a fun and challenging exercise to produce a film of our own for the shorts contest. While Ben is consistently working within the film and commercial production industry, this would be my first foray into the filmmaking world, so we wanted to start small. we had a completed 9-page script, had scouted locations, and were just about to crew up for the shoot when something unexpected happened...

You guessed it, a global pandemic. Obviously, we set aside our project for the foreseeable future, but after the initial fears and anxieties passed I couldn't help but take the hours of extra free time on my hands and dive head first into re-working the script. What started as a 9-page, 2-scene short turned into a 12, 15, 18, 21, and ultimately a 25-page short with 4 locations, 10 scenes, and a hell of a lot more work to be done to get it off the ground.

I was lucky enough to be able to consult friends and industry connections along the way to hone in on the themes and better define the characters over the roughly 18 months of on-and-off writing. I can't thank them enough for their contributions, their sometimes necessary critical feedback, and most of all their commitment of time and care to mine and Ben's project.

PLAYBACK _ Script.pdf

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