Our protagonist Anthony is the head of the theater department at a middle school, a space that becomes a playground for all his dormant and denied ambitions of becoming a playwright. For the annual production, he sets up the students to perform a play purportedly by a famous German playwright who has very graciously offered it to the school, when in fact, there is no such playwright in existence, and the authorship belongs to no other than our desperately impatient protagonist himself. To further complicate matters, Anthony hires a filmmaker to document this entire endeavor. 

From the word go, things begin to go downhill, and the film does a hilariously entertaining and engaging job of portraying it all for the viewer. The big tragedy of Anthony’s life could lie in the answer that is crucial to this whole foolhardy endeavor - does he even have the talent to be a writer to begin with? The answer could be in the negative, or swing the other way, and reaffirm his already shaky faith in his writing and talents. 
At no point does the film overburden itself with the expression of all of these ideas, staying true to its amusing core all along. While our protagonist continues to deal with one hiccup after another, the viewer is always able to find the comedy in it, and it is in the achievement of this result that the film succeeds at being a complete, comprehensive whole.

Sure, Your Play is Good | Short Film Nominee

Claire returns to high school after perhaps the most difficult summer of her life. Drowning in the loss of a familial space that she had known her whole life, and the grief that followed this loss, she is unable to invest herself beyond the bare minimum in the school work and activities that await her on this side of the summer. This eventually leads her to a theater class, the main circumstance that would not only dominate the body of the narrative, but also become the focal point on which the most seminal action of the story would pivot. 

The narrative that thus comes into existence is one that is marked by emotion, the inability to comprehend or address its complexity for a teenager, and an unexpected sense of hope that is eventually found in confronting it anyway. The tonality of the film is marked by a calmness that definitely works in its favour. The mellow nature is matched by the visuals which, albeit not devoid of color, remain deliberately understated. 

The only reservation the viewer might have is that though the story sets out on an important, compelling course, it does not entirely go all the way in terms of execution. However, this is a hindrance that can be easily overcome in subsequent projects by the team, with the prospect of more storytelling by them surely being something to look forward to.

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