Laura Hasn't Slept

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Movie
Original title Laura Hasn't Slept
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2020
length 11 minutes
Rod
Director Parker Finn
script Parker Finn
production Jonathan barrel
music Rob Himebough
camera Daniel Clarke
cut Tristan Borys
occupation

Laura Hasn't Slept is a short film by Parker Finn that was made available on their platform by the independent film distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories and the technology company Mailchimp from the end of March 2020 after the South by Southwest Film Festival was canceled.

action

During a visit to her psychiatrist Dr. Parsons tells Laura about a nightmare that she keeps having. She doesn't know the man who persecutes her in it. Even if he smiles at her in her dreams, she is more afraid of him than of anything else, because something is wrong with his eyes. The man, she reports, has a different face every time, as if he were using different masks, but it is his eyes that keep her recognizing him.

Dr. Parsons does not believe Laura that she only visits him in his practice to talk about her dreams. He asks her if she can be sure that she is not dreaming again right now. Then the room changes and also the eyes of Dr. Parsons. Laura tries to escape. Dr. Parsons begins to pull the skin off his face. Laura doesn't even want to look, when she opens her eyes again she is still in this changed, now completely decayed room. Suddenly, Dr. Parsons in front of her. She screams.

production

Caitlin Stasey plays Laura

Directed by Parker Finn , who also wrote the script.

Caitlin Stasey plays Laura, Lew Temple her psychiatrist Dr. Parsons.

After the cancellation of the South by Southwest Film Festival , where the film was due to premiere in March 2020, the independent film distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories and the technology company Mailchimp made the film available free of charge on a joint online platform for 30 days. After that, the makers of the film can decide whether to let it run there for two more years with an SVOD license .

Awards

South by Southwest Film Festival 2020

  • Received the Special Jury Award in the Midnight Short section (Parker Finn)
  • Awarded the Film Design Award in the Excellence in Poster Design category
  • Nomination for the Grand Jury Award in the Midnight Short section (Parker Finn)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Chris Lindahl: Most SXSW Shorts Are Streaming Free Thanks to Oscilloscope and Mailchimp. In: indiewire.com, March 25, 2020.
  2. Awards 2020. In: sxsw.com. Retrieved April 29, 2020.