This was a very satisfying little project that Michelle Vincig and Bryan Hiltner put together for "48 Go Green", part of the 48 Hour Film Festival. If you are not familiar with the 48 hour film festival, it is an annual competition for filmmakers in which you have exactly 48 hours to write, cast, photograph, and edit a short film. The topic is assigned at the start of the 48 hour time period, so very little can be done to prep. Regardless, people do as much ahead as they can. Michelle and Bryan asked me a week or so ahead of time if I would do the project, and of course I said "Yes." I showed up at their house early on a Saturday morning and was given a script that had been written overnight. While I was madly cramming my lines they were gathering up all the production equipment that was going out to our location. I was to play a recently-deceased environmentalist speaking to his daughter from beyond the grave as she visits a wet-lands area he fought to preserve. Emily Galash did a nice turn as my daughter. There were so many ways this could have gone off the rails. It could have been corny or sappy or it could have been raining that day, but instead it was sweet and to the point, and beautifully photographed.
The Shared Dream from Michelle Vincig on Vimeo.
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