Soft (short film, 2020)
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| Original title | Soft |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 7 minutes |
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| Director | Daniel Antebi |
| script | Daniel Antebi |
| production | Casey Bader, Reid Hannaford, Nicole Quintero Ochoa |
| camera | Matthew Ballard |
| cut | Daniel Antebi |
| occupation | |
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Soft is a short film by Daniel Antebi 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
Sam is in the dojo's washrooms after martial arts training with coach Novik. Although the training is over, Novik wants to get physical and touch the teenager. The light keeps going out. Sam's lover Rafa and his younger brother Leo enter. They consume drugs together, and Leo wants to give Novik an energy drink, which Sam prevents. Sam's friend has little experience with drugs, coughs after a train and leaves the washroom.
Sam goes after him. It's raining outside. They touch and want to kiss, but Sam is wrong because he doesn't know what her coach is doing with his brother in the back. When Sam hears the two of them fooling around in the back and Novik finally opens the door, Leo seems very relaxed and Sam asks Novik to bring her home.
production
Directed by Daniel Antebi , who also wrote the script.
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, Soft is one of the films that should be shown at the South by Southwest Film Festival and that will be made available virtually by Amazon through a cooperation with Amazon Prime Video as part of the “SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection”. The film will be available for free in the US for ten days in front of the Prime Video paywall.
Awards
South by Southwest Film Festival 2020
- Nomination for the Grand Jury Award in the Narrative Short section ( Daniel Antebi )
Web links
- Soft in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Soft in the program of the South by Southwest Film Festival (English)
- Soft by 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.