Short Short Film

Here is a small fun horror short film for you to look at the titles you have reached your destination, and it is a man whose assistant to the Google Maps phone is taking him off the road, perhaps on purpose.

It is described as “four minutes of daytime horror with terrible phone Ai, disturbing children, balloons and a little surrealism”.

The film was directed by Ryan Poonrey and we included an interview with the director below to be read, so that we can know the short film and the director.

This short film is shared in collaboration with the Film Film Festival, where we are trying to exhibit some of the great indie genre films and shorts that filmmakers are creating.

What was the inspiration for your movie? How did you come the idea?

The bones of the film gathered in a flash when I came across some graffiti in Toronto, depicting a child with dead eyes that contains a ball (included in JPG uploads). Once I had finished what would be the final draft of the story, I was able to see some of my fears and the paranoia around things like Ia gorgered enough obviously on the surface.

Tell us about you. What is your background? How long have you been a director? Please, keep quite short.

I am a director, an editor and a complete member of the DGC in Canada in the Directors’ Caucus, based in Toronto. I directed 17 short films (I think …), a series of YouTube that mixed a real emergency with scripts inspired by the genre and a cinematographic adaptation of the graphic novel “Snow”. I have been doing it for about 10 years from Toronto, Canada.

What inspires you to work within gender cinema and tell this type of stories?

The cinema of the genre allows me to dig into what terrifies me more, while (it is hoped) to be a little less explicit in this regard thanks to the traps of the genre that we can put inside and around the stories. Many things terrify me, and I am very the horror lover who is sincerely terrified by many of the films I look at: it is like a roller coaster for me, I scream and I think I will die but as soon as I did I want it to start again. I get a lot of catharsis that is to watch and make genre movies.

What was your favorite part of the film process for this project?

We shot this movie with almost no crew and with my neighbors as main actors. I love working with the biggest crews, but sometimes it is nice to shoot an entire film in 5 hours with some friends who return home in time to prepare and have dinner with their families.

What are you most proud of this movie?

Looking at him to open a Midnight Mid -Skirting Franco and listen to the audience of my peers – whose work was absolutely killed at FQ, seriously, 100% bangers at the Festival – laugh and jump and cheer up all the moments I hoped. I leaned on some strangest choices with some parts of this film and it seemed to me to trust my instinct when it was subjected to screening.

What is a favorite story or a moment from the making of the film you would like to share?

I thought I had a fantastic floor for balloons; I added fishing on the translucent fishing line to keep them with weighted so that they did not fly out. The problem, however, is that they would have whipped violently to the slightest breeze.

So, I grabbed a boom microphone pole, I added a ribbon for green painters and I recorded every balloon on it one at a time and I had Althea (who also played the woman at home in the opening scene) raised the balloons on the pole – later I would have composed her out of the place.

Seriously I spent a few hours preparing those balloons just to throw away the entire floor and understand a solution right on the spot (which in the end worked even better) better)

What was your most demanding moment or experience you had while you shoot your movie?

The executor of a child, Zoe, had never performed on the camera before. I had planned in advance for this having a limited block and dialogues for his role, but trying to make a 6 -year -old boy who was firmly stuck for 2 minutes was more difficult than anything else!

Zoe is fantastic, however, and I can’t blame her to just want to run with balloons. In the end he gave us everything we needed and most – apparently, Zoe would like to recite again but “only if Ryan is directing”. Three applause for her mother, Athena, listed as “Zoe Wrangler” in the credits.

In this case, how has your film changed or deferred by its original concept during pre-production, production and/or post-production? How did the way you approach future projects as a result?

Nothing had to really be changed: I have already worked with children’s actors and I will do it again in the future, you just have to be ready to work with children in a slightly different way from what you could with professionals. Plan in advance and make sure that the plan is to wrap them as soon as possible as you get the return returns for each hour who are on the set when they prefer to play with their friends or their dogs!

Who were some of your collaborators and actors of the film? How did you start working with each other?

My co -producer of the film was Liz Whitmere with whom I want to work for years, and following this film I helped him shoot his hilarious adoption of the short film that I hope can get some love for the Festival by the end of the year. Liz also made me know the VFX make -up of the film Natalia Andrea Pozo, having also worked on the Liz film by Salem Horror Fest “Cold”.

My neighbors play both the man and the disturbing child: it is beautiful when you get along with your neighbors and they are a game to be covered by a blood gallon! The composite of the film, Daniela Pinto, is not only my attention for everything I do, but it is also my quite convenient roommate to be able to knock on the office door saying “Hey Dani I have notes on this signal” while in pajamas (it could have a different opinion on this …).

What is the best advice you have ever received as director and what would you mean to the new filmmakers?

Plan to should do your movie, whatever happens, plan B is that you get funding to make it. If you do not get the financing, find a way to do the things you have to do without asking other people to do it for free – every task you learn to do, that it is to create, prostheses, VFX (practical and digital), musical composition, everything will make you more dangerous as a director later when you have more realistic budgets.

What are your plans for your career and what do you hope that this film does for this? What kind of stories would you like to tell going on?

The success of the screening both in Filmquest and Fanpoa was a huge impulse for my trust, in particular when it comes to trusting my intestine when it comes to making less obvious choices with history, character and direction. Arriving, I am working with three different writers out of four features, which vary quite wildly, and I will be so jazz if we get to the camera on them.

What is your next project and when can we expect to see it?

The next short film is called “Time Eater”, which follows an elderly woman with unprooked dementia dementia whose house is divided by a demon. It will be my first test test. This year I will also publish three digital series – and directing one of them – even if I still can’t say much about them.

Where can we find more than your work and where can we contact you the interested parties? Do you have a website or a youtube channel/vimeo? Do social media manage?

Most of everything I filmed is on YouTube on http://youtube.com/ryancouldey Instagram.com/rycouldrey Twitch.tv/ry_Tron (mostly retro video games and model kit construction) Discord: Rytron (NO UNDERSCAFO)

Question bonus n. 1: What is your favorite movie of all time?

I change my idea almost every day … Today my favorite movie is “Raw” by Julia Ducournau

Question bonus n. 2: What is the film that inspired you to become a director and/or had the greatest influence on your work?

I will have to give two: “Labirinto” by Del Toro and “Psycho” by Hitchcock. I don’t think none of the two necessarily influences my work (lately I have been more influenced by souls such as Higurashi: gou and paranoia agent) but they are the films that always destroy me and make me want to do something that could have the same effect on others, one day.