2020 / USA / 14:58
It’s July 1997. The Sojourner Rover has landed on Mars and Janet Leigh can’t find the damn dog.
Official Selections
2021 Film Fort
2020 DeadCenter Film Festival
2020 HollyShorts Film Festival
2020 Maryland International Film Festival
2020 LA Shorts
2020 Nevada City Film Festival
2020 Eastern Oregon Film Festival
2020 Lone Star Film Festival
2020 Hill Country Film Festival
2020 Reel East Texas
Cast
Liana Liberato (Hulu’s Light As A Feather)
Dana Powell (Bridesmaids)
Denny McAuliffe
Jon Ryckman
Robby Che
Crew
Written and Directed by Nolan Wilson Goff
Produced by Taylor Rae, Jonathan Godinho, Morgan Lott
Cinematography by Sean Conte
Production Design by Alexis Piligian
Edited by Caleb Thiesen & Jordan Crabtree
Music by Hannah Parrott
Director’s Statement
This film is loosely inspired by a true family story. One that I always found darkly comic and kind of twisted. Something Sam Shepard might have written into one of his plays. This short allowed me to explore a more bittersweet tone and something more rhythmic than I’ve done before, but all packaged into a small-town setting, on the day of a significant moment in space history. We were inverting the emphasis: bringing the small, personal drama front and center, and pushing the big headline, news story into the background.