WORTH
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This film school thesis short is the coming-of-age drama about a young man who joins the Army to please his father only to end up a prisoner of war. In the cell, he considers the ramifications of the philosophy, attitude, and fears that imprisoned him and deteriorated his relationships. Official selection of numerous festivals, including New Hope Film Festival, Columbia Gorge Film Festival, Williamsburg Independent Film Festival & Mt. Hood Independent Film Festival.
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WORTH was my "thesis film" and the culmination of my one-year filmmaking trade-school program. When we went into production, we had only been in school a few months and none of the crew (my classmates) had been on set before--including myself. We also had to find a way to make our prisoner of war appear as if he had spent several weeks in a cell despite the fact we only had the location for one day. Suddenly, I found myself at the helm with a steep challenge ahead and no experience. We had to start at the end... I asked my actor to grow out his beard and hair for weeks in advance of filming. On the day of filming we arrived on set and immediately began tallying the wall with erasable chalk. We had replicas of his clothes, so we could have one with stains and one that was cleaner. We began filming... backwards. We started with the climactic, final prison scene with the lead's hair and beard fully grown, face bruised and bloody, garments stained, and a wall filled with tallies. As we moved backward through time and forward through the day we progressively erased tallies, trimmed his beard and hair, and morphed stains and bruises. Over the course of one long day, we shot five scenes--all with varied conditions--and ended the day with our actor freshly cut and shaved and a wall void of tallies. We made the day and made the film. It may not be amazing, but I remain impressed with how we rose to the challenge on our first (long) day on the job. |
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"I find pennies everywhere, they always seem to get left behind [...] but they're still worth something."
- Felix Waller in WORTH
photos by Emmanuel Oyelami
Teaser
The short film WORTH weaves scenes of flashback and reflection, so it felt only right to embed the same themes into the teaser. Here, we utilized sequences playing backwards to evoke reflection and regret.
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Written & Directed by Patrick Mandeville
Starring Shan Agish, Angela Sharp, Sean Hallahan, Fady Kerko, Sandra Colchado & Eric P. Glenn
Cinematographer: Wilson Mbiavanga
Assistant Director: Robert Wallace
Production Sound Recording: Daimon Glenn
Boom Operator: Emmanuel Oyelami
HMU: Julia Preis
Location Manager: Maxine Medina
Casting assistant: Daimon Glenn
Color correction: David H Castillo
Music by Aaron Thompson
Original Song by: Courtney Costello & Patrick Mandeville
Production Assistants: Sean Costello & Eric P. Glenn
Editing & Sound Design by Patrick Mandeville
Compositor: Luís Braula Reis
Produced by Patrick Mandeville
a DIVIDED LINE realization
patrickmandeville.com
alinedivided.com
© 2013 Patrick Mandeville
WORTH on IMDb
Starring Shan Agish, Angela Sharp, Sean Hallahan, Fady Kerko, Sandra Colchado & Eric P. Glenn
Cinematographer: Wilson Mbiavanga
Assistant Director: Robert Wallace
Production Sound Recording: Daimon Glenn
Boom Operator: Emmanuel Oyelami
HMU: Julia Preis
Location Manager: Maxine Medina
Casting assistant: Daimon Glenn
Color correction: David H Castillo
Music by Aaron Thompson
Original Song by: Courtney Costello & Patrick Mandeville
Production Assistants: Sean Costello & Eric P. Glenn
Editing & Sound Design by Patrick Mandeville
Compositor: Luís Braula Reis
Produced by Patrick Mandeville
a DIVIDED LINE realization
patrickmandeville.com
alinedivided.com
© 2013 Patrick Mandeville
WORTH on IMDb
