''Outside'' is a 2004 short film written and directed by Jenn Kao and starring
Courtney Ford
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The film won the Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Film award at the 2006 Comic-Con Independent Film Festival and a 2005 DGA Student Directing Award. The film has screened at over 30 film festivals.
Plot
In
post-apocalyptic
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society, people are isolated in sealed bunkers. A young woman is forced to confront her fears of the unknown when she makes contact with an Outsider.
Production
''Outside'' was produced at the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television. It was writer/director Jenn Kao's MFA thesis film.
Reviews
FilmThreat.com critic Doug Brunnel gave ''Outside'' 4 stars and called it ''"utterly captivating...a great film."''
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Variety
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* ''Variety'' (1925 film), a German silent film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont
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'' critic Tom McClean, part of the jury that named ''Outside'' Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Film at the 2006 Comic-Con International Film Festival, said that ''Outside'' was ''"like one of those great high concept sci-fi films of the 1970s"''.
[Comments appeared on McClean's Variety weblog: http://weblogs.variety.com/bags_and_boards/2006/07/cciiff_winners.html]
Details
* Shooting format: 35mm film
* Running Time: 22 minutes
References
External links
Official Movie Site
2004 films
2004 short films
American short films
2000s English-language films
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