A once-happy couple face some difficult questions about communication, expectations and committing crimes.
This film was created as part of the 48 Hour Film project. I wrote and edited this film, which was produced and directed by Jonathan Degueldre.
The 48 Hour Film Project is competition which gives you 48 hours – from 7 pm Friday to 7 pm Sunday – to write, shoot, edit and deliver a short film. Our team was assigned the genre of dark comedy and the film had to include a potted plant, a famous author as a character and the line of dialogue “I hope it’s good news.”
The film was selected as a finalist to screen at Filmapalooza Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2023, and of all the films screened there, was selected as one of 24 films to play at 48 Hour Film Project screening at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2023.
This was my first time writing and editing for a contest like this. It was great working with a crew of people instead of doing everything myself. We had a makeup artist, a gaffer and two composers. This is the first film I’ve worked on in many years where I wasn’t operating the camera. I spent most of the shoot off to the side of the set, editing whatever we had already shot. I’m very happy that we managed to finish the film in time and I’m even happier that is turned out to be pretty good.
It’s incredible that something I wrote between 01h00 and 03h00 one morning made it all the way to Cannes. It wasn’t an Official Selection and wasn’t in competition, but I learned that a lot of the films that get shown at the festival aren’t either.
I was lucky enough to attend the screening and experience some of the festival. It was great meeting some of the other filmmakers involved in the 48HFP and getting a better understanding of how film festivals and film markets operate.