Old Hollywood nostalgia. A short film that blends Film Noir and Hitchcock inspired cinematic grammar. Containing elements of Noir with its washed up private investigator and a femme fatale co-star, and incorporating 'Hitchcockian' elements of voyeurism and color, the silent film follows a P.I hired by a wealthy businessman who suspects his wife might be having an affair.
David Alvarez wrote and directed this film for his Directing 2 class.
"What would you do if you could do anything?"
A young man hones his skills of lucid dreaming so that he's able to spend time with the girl of his dreams. But it's not long until he discovers that the subconscious can be a powerful and dangerous thing...
This short was written for a production class in David's first year of Columbia College Hollywood.
"I'm not a bad person just because of my father"
ROBERT FLETCHER, son of the infamous "Crisis Killer", struggles with his separation from society when all he wants is a picket-fence normalcy; but when a chance encounter with a local "Kill Club" offers him a means to a better life, it also forces him to evaluate his own identity once he's pushed to become what he's fought his whole life not to be... exactly like his father.
This film was an official selection for the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival.
"Funny, how selective we can be about the reality we accept"
In this short psychological drama, the audience is torn between two realities. The audience is forced to question the real "real". Is the protagonist being tormented by an abusive boyfriend, blocked out by denial? Or is the abuse we're seeing the paranoid delusions of a schizophrenic best friend, who's always desperately been in love with her? "Dreamland" won 2nd place at the Columbia College Hollywood Fright Fest in 2014.
