Odessa will
play on Sunday August 16th at 7pm at the TCL Chinese 6 Theaters in
Hollywood The Director, Writer, Cast and Crew will be in attendance.
Odessa is a
quiet and powerful dystopian drama that slowly gives up its secrets. A mother
makes a dangerous and strangely familiar border crossing in order to save her
ailing daughter’s life. But she turns out to be crossing OUT of the US and into
the Sovereign State of Texas, which has seceded from the union and controls most
of the deeply impoverished USA’s petroleum supply.
“The
script delivered a compelling, personal drama, but also touched on the issues of
border security and immigration. Around the same time that I found ‘Odessa’
on inktip.com in June 2013, a
university study was released analyzing the trends and demographics of 2,238
people who died in south central Arizona from 1990 to 2012 after crossing the
border illegally. The study made an observation that stuck with me while reading
‘Odessa’ and comes up again and again in the debates and the news: ‘We’re
missing the point. The answers don’t lie in border security. The answers lie in
understanding the economics [that drive migration]’.”, said producer/actor
Grace Santos.
“The goal
of Odessa is neither to vilify nor sanctify Texas, simply to challenge our own
identity and the far-reaching effects that seismic shifts and partisanship can
have in a new gilded age.”, explains the writer
Doug Johnson.
Apart
from being a stand-alone short, Odessa also serves as a pitch-episode for
a serial drama expanding upon the situations and characters in the
film.
Odessa had a
successful market screening at the Cannes’ Short Film Corner, won
a Remi Award at WorldFest, and won the Grand Jury Award for
Best Short Film at the Gasparilla International Film Festival.
Sean
Turrell (Director), Grace Santos (Actress, Producer), Doug Johnson (Writer,
Producer), Anthony Escobar (Actor), and Ricky Wayne (Actor) will attend the
Q&A after the Hollyshorts screening.
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