BLUE

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS - BEST SHORT FILM

A film by Ziad Foty

DIRECTED BY

Ziad Foty

WRITTEN BY

Jeffrey Brown & Ziad Foty

PRODUCED BY

Lisa Thrasher

CAST

Clayton Brown as Young Blue, Amr El-Bayoumi as Father Daoud, Julian Galano as Daniel, Rob LaColla Jr. as Blue, Vanessa Meadows as Joanna, Janae Palmer as Cruz Cindy

SYNOPSIS

Stuck somewhere between his idyllic life and his haunting memories, all Blue wants is to go fishing with his son. His son Daniel is everything to him, most importantly the person who makes him forget the difficulties of his own troubled childhood of poverty.

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