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THE MESSENGER

SATURDAY | 12:00pm

Natalie Choroszej

10 min | Minuteman Technical High School, MA | 2023 | World Premiere

The ghost story is part of a larger narrative. The Messenger (played by Ojas Thakur) attempts to make people realize that they are dying before the Lady of Death comes to take them.

Jury Statement: “Haunting, atmospheric, and immersive. A very well achieved audiovisual realization, which does not reach excellence, but preserves the forms of the genre in the aesthetically beautiful treatment of cinematography and lighting. The montage of the shots is a compilation with very good results, which is plausibly coupled with the temporal and existential proposal that this story manifests.”