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Currently Playing at Film Festivals:
- Winner "Best Short Film" -- Florida Media Market Film Festival
- November 8, 2008: Mosaic L.A. Film Festival
- December 26, 2008 to January 04, 2009: Beverly Hills Hi-Def Film Festival
- ...More dates and locations to come...

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Synopsis
Tom plays the role of Dr. Nordac, a state institution psychiatrist. Struggling to deal with his own daughter's dementia, he takes solice in trying to help other patients, while leaving his daughter's wellbeing to other doctors. Soon, his own sanity is tested.

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Within the cold, sterile walls of a mental hospital, the friendship of two young patients blossoms, as a doctor’s grip on reality begins to collapse.

Not bound by conventional mentality, Lucas and Grace have discovered their own colorful world of magnificent possibilities. This is in stark contrast to their closed-minded psychiatrist, Dr. Nordac. Though in her past, Grace has suffered an abusive relationship with her father, she remains child like, clinging to hope and acceptance of what may still be good in her world. Lucas is a Zen-like individual, who speaks softly, and often, in parables. Little is known of his days before he was a wandering street magician, only that he held tightly to the belief that his magic was real. Dr. Nordac presents himself with great stoicism, yet under the surface he is concealing a troublesome secret of his own. He becomes increasingly concerned with the influence that Lucas’s “magic” has on Grace and the other patients. Cautioning the young magician only deepens their divergence, as even the doctor’s hold on reality begins to slip, and he soon discovers, that truth lies not in what we see, but in that which we believe.

The film opens with a quote from Emily Dickinson, which conjures an interesting perspective of the world’s take on madness. The ending is a magical finale that employs fantasy to examine one man’s dark reality.

Production Stills:

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Tom with J Andrew Ashby Tom
Tom Tom with Rane Jameson
& Marina Shtelen

Principal photography was from January 12-14, 2008.