Single (short film, 2020)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | single |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 15 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ashley Eakin |
| script | Ashley Eakin |
| production | Connie Jo Sechrist |
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Single is a short film by Ashley Eakin 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
When Kim goes shopping, the young woman is strangely eyed and pityed. One of her arms is missing, and only small stunted fingers stick out. She is tired of the pitying looks and sayings, because actually she gets her life in order despite this handicap. She also drives a car.
One evening she goes out in style to date a stranger. She covers her nonexistent arm with her coat first. Then she discovers that handsome Jake has a similar deformity on his hand. First she wants to know what the reason is, but then she tries to pull away and goes outside. Jake finds her there. She doesn't believe it can work with them and tries to pinpoint the differences between him and her.
Together they move on through the night. They get eggs in a supermarket, go up on a roof, talk and throw eggs at a glass pane, combined with sentences directed at people they are angry at. Kim can hardly believe that it was Jake who left his girlfriend and not the other way around. She wants to find out whether he really got along with his handicap in life, as he described. But he can't really report much.
Kim lets Jake help her put on her shoes. He admits he knew about her stunted arm before the date. She goes. In the elevator, a woman compliments her to distract her from the arm. Kim throws her an egg.
production
Ashley Eakin directed and wrote the screenplay. The single is her third short film.
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 . In addition, Single is one of the films that were to be shown at the South by Southwest Film Festival and made available virtually by Amazon as part of the “SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection” through a cooperation with Amazon Prime Video. The film was in the USA Available free of charge for ten days in front of the Prime Video paywall. In August 2020 it was shown in the hybrid version of the Bentonville Film Festival.
Awards
Bentonville Film Festival 2020
- Nomination for best short film
South by Southwest Film Festival 2020
- Received the Special Jury Award - Narrative Short (Ashley Eakin)
- Nomination for the Grand Jury Award - Narrative Short (Ashley Eakin)
Web links
- Single in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Single in the program of the South by Southwest Film Festival (English)
- Single from Oscilloscope Laboratories / Mailchimp (Video)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chris Lindahl: Most SXSW Shorts Are Streaming Free Thanks to Oscilloscope and Mailchimp. In: indiewire.com, March 25, 2020.
- ↑ Kim Lyons: Amazon will feature SXSW films in a virtual film festival on Prime Video. In: theverge.com, April 2, 2020.
- ↑ Tatiana Siegel: SXSW-Amazon Virtual Fest Sets Lineup for April 27 Launch. In: The Hollywood Reporter, April 21, 2020.
- ↑ https://bentonvillefilm.org/artists/single/
- ↑ https://bentonvillefilm.org/bentonville-film-festival/films/