Dylan and Michelle

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On the night of their breakup, Michelle is awakened by a honking car at 4am. She walks upstairs and sees her now ex-girlfriend Dylan fast asleep.

As Michelle watches her, soon the feeling of doubt starts to set in. She moves to sleep next to her but Dylan quickly jumps out of bed and is angered by the mix signals.

Michelle tries to downplay her actions and attempts to win her back before sunrise.

The following is a clip from the film. The song by Pavel E. Smid is titled, “Void in the Shape of a Girl” which happened to be the original title of the short.

I strongly believe that when working in the short form filmmakers should be progressive in the nature they tell their story. For “Dylan and Michelle,” I wanted to embrace the scaled-down aesthetics and strive to capture a moment in these two girls’ lives that is rarely seen on screen.

Everyone has been in a relationship that has ended. It’s part of life. What is typically displayed on screen is the actual breakup; two people agreeing to separate. A breakup is rarely cut-and-dry. From my own experience and stories from friends there is always that defining moment where a decision must be made; will we part as lovers and try and maintain a friendship? Or will we never speak to this person again?

This film explores that calm surreal feeling of being trapped in the eye of a storm.

Anyone can imagine how hard it would be to shoot a story that took place between 4 am and sunrise. Shooting in the summer we had longer days and shorter nights. To maximize the night we had to film between 8 pm and 8 am. To say filming was extremely challenging is an understatement. Battling fatigue and switching our sleeping schedules was the hardest part. There was never any shortage of coffee or Red Bull.

The biggest blessing to the production was our director of photography, Jefferson, who was used to staying up all night because he worked the graveyard shift at his other job. He kept us moving and on our toes the whole time.

Born in Cleveland, Allie has been professionally training in the arts for over 10 years. It all started when she was 5 years old and convinced her parents to let her audition for a community theatre production of Babes in Toyland.

Since that time she has been steadily working in New York, Washington, DC, and Connecticut. After enjoying small success in New York’s theater industry, she decided to move to Los Angeles. Once she arrived she immediately began working in film and television. Her credits include Nickelodeon’s Drake and Josh, Freedom Writers, and a handful of commercials.

Described as a free-spirited performer since the young age of 13, Pheby has impressed everyone who has seen her either on stage or on the screen. A native of Southern California, she majored in Dance at Loyola Marymount University.

After college, she continued to dance for local equity productions but was being recruited more frequently by her filmmaker friends to play roles in their films. Soon, she started to get the reputation of an actress who is bold and daring and who generally stays away from the “pretty” roles in favor of playing characters with flaws, depth, and edge.

16 minutes, Color, HD, 1:85:1, Stereo, English
Not Rated by the MPAA

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