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2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION | Darker directed by Alex Torres

SCREENING DATE: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16TH 2016
TIME: 8:00 PM | SHORT FILMS BLOCK 5
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Synopsis

When a young man identifies someone in a crime, the perpetrators’ mysterious guardian begins terrorizing him. The good Samaritan ultimately realizes the stranger’s revenge is even more sinister than he had imagined.

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Director Biography

Alex Armando Torres is also a self taught photographer and film maker having taken classes at DC Photo Week, National Geographic and Jacob Burns Film Center.

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Director Statement

When it comes to some things in life, I am definitely an example of a late bloomer. I fell in love with film from an early age and have been taking pictures ever since I was a boy. Now, I make photographs and create films. I interpret a film as a work of art.

I have always been fascinated by film and images, whether movies or photography. I am always amazed and interested in other people’s view points as captured and expressed in film; so much so that when I was young I started to create my own work.

If there is one idea I would like to leave you with, it is this: A deeper understanding that beauty is everywhere, in everyday experiences; like helping a stranger, smelling a beautiful flower, drinking a cup of coffee or holding hands with someone you love. Capture this on film and you may just be able to move the world or at the very least touch a life.

All of these experiences can represent tremendous beauty in the world. When I come upon an idea or subject that I find beautiful and snap a photograph or make a film, I capture that moment of beauty that lasted for a brief moment in time, but is now captured on film, to be immortalized forever.

I hope you enjoy my work and that it inspires you to be beautiful in your own way. Thank you.

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Credits:

Director: Alex Torres ( Heroes)

Writer: Carl Joglar (Heroes)

Producer : Alex Torres ( Heroes)
 
Key Cast:

Justin ColonAna Proulx

George Gibson

Alex Grene

John P. Baker

Portia Wiggins

Sasha Gordon

Carl Joglar  (Heroes, Children of Sin, Unpleasantville, Gloom, The Brink)

Category: ACCEPTED FILMS