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Ironrite
Writer, Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Clayton Combe
Camera
RED Gemini
Lenses
Sigma Cine Primes
This short is based on a short story that my father wrote about his mother. Set in the 1950s, it portrays an unhappy housewife struggling with her place in the world, and hiding herself and her young son from an aggressive door-to-door salesman.
The film was co-produced and award-winningly art directed by Kelsey Combe, and stars Samantha Scaffidi and Suly Sky Vining. It was shot in the historic Lustron House museum in Closter, NJ.
Date
September 2019
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