Short Film Festival: 168
Sony PMW-EX1
Style – French New Wave

My short film is a parable. After spotting a quiet young beauty, a smitten amateur magician puts his not-so-polished trickery to work to gain her affection.

Luke 15:18-19 (NIV)
18 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men.’

In the part of the Prodigal Son verse I received, my main character is going to portray a lost man who is manipulative and searching for a way to make what he desires work to his advantage through his own self will. He continues to control every situation until at the very end it stops working for him but he doesn’t know how to let go. The girl throughout my story is someone who begins to see him as he really is but doesn’t give up on him and at the very end comes to him; he sees the glory in her and therefore sees the glory in himself. As a result, the last trick he tries to perform is a true success.