MOMENTS: MOTHER (2022)

short film | drama | 6 min.

created and directed by Michael Vaughn Hernandez
written by Darren Bailey
stars Rufino Romero and LaNell Cooper

LOGLINE

A woman looking for her kidnapped son finds one of the men who took him.

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SYNOPSIS

Rural America. Christian counts the cash he just earned from a kidnapping job until he hears sounds of violence in the next room. Christian looks on in horror at the doorway, knowing the assailant on the other side is looking for him. He tries to make a run for it but Jodie, a woman soaked in his cohorts’ blood and holding a kid’s baseball bat, stops him in his tracks. She asks for her son. Christian gives her an answer she’s not satisfied with. Jodie tries reasoning with him and he challenges her. In her last attempt, she shares a story of her son and unknowingly strikes a chord with this man. She adds her son is everything they adults were supposed to be: kind, generous, compassionate, trustworthy. She demands to know her son’s whereabouts one last time, and Christian finally tells her.

FULL CREDITS

stars Rufino Romero and LaNell Cooper
producer Creative Duet Media
creator and director
Michael Vaughn Hernandez
writer Darren Bailey
director of photography Michael Babyak
first assistant director Kally Khourshid
second assistant director Carlos Salazar
assistant camera Jackie Briehan
gaffer Paul Deorio
grip Cass Chang
swing Charles Michael Cartwright
production designer Amy Augustine
sound mixer Jason Aaron Moran
make up and hair Irma Vasquez
editor and colorist Creative Duet Media
re-recording mixer Alexander Verbitskiy
foley studio Soundmaker Studio
foley artist Alvaro Aparicio
foley editor Vanessa Chuquiure
location Martinsound Studios
Special thanks to Post Haste Digital

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