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Amara’s Smile goes to LA
Official Selection
Los Angeles Film Awards 2022
Amara’s Smile (short, romance) is headed to Los Angeles Film Awards 2022!
I am grateful to the LAFA adjudicators for this honour. I love that this short is going to get in front of a whole new audience. LAFA does an amazing job of promoting indie film with a large audience on all of their channels.
The entire motivation for making a film is to entertain an audience and getting into festivals like this one makes a filmmaker feel like all the blood, sweat and tears were all worthwhile.
Thank you to the amazing cast and crew on this short!
Here are the full credits:
Writer/Director:
DC Brandon
Starring:
Lee Lopez as Kevin
Henna Sahota as Amara
Supporting:
Aaron Coburn as Josh
Safia Comtois-Mohamad as Trudy
Gary Layton as Paul
Extras:
Mary Mansour as teen in park
Todd Bowles as guy on bike
Crew:
Director/DP: DC Brandon
AD: Rohit Kataria
Sound recordist: James Hastings
Boom op: Eddie MacIntosh
Post:
Editor/Colorist/Sound Mix: DC Brandon Films
Animation: Zahra Ayatollah
Watch the trailer
After being stood up for a date, a woman runs into an old college classmate who gives her an unforgettable night under the stars.
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Director’s Statement
We all die but true love never does.
Setting this story against the backdrop of an ancient Chinese poem allowed me to position the love story in a more eternal way, one that extends beyond our horizon into the stars above.
In this small, low-budget indie drama, perhaps one can find some hope for love in troubled times.
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DC Brandon