THE LONELIEST BOY IN THE WORLD
DIRECTED BY NANO CLOW
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY JOSEPH SCHWEERS
CANADA | 2020 | 17 MINS | ENGLISH
SHORT, DRAMA
LOGLINE
As the last person on earth, a young man faces off against his greatest enemy: his own thoughts.
SYNOPSIS
In his day to day as the last person on earth, a boy’s thoughts grow wilder and more haunting. Tortured by the memory of a lost love and loneliness, he begins to see visions that challenge his ideas of existence and meaning. With his sanity running on empty, he must come to terms with his loneliness or fall victim to it.
Starring Dylan Schmid and Kaitlyn Bernard
WRITER’S STATEMENT
I’ve been finding it difficult to find fulfillment in my own life. If I have love and still am not fulfilled, how can that be? Life must be more than these human things. I want people to look inside themselves and ask that same question. - Dylan Schmid
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
This short film is important to me and Dylan because it digs into some problems most of us encounter. The inability to accept and move on. The inability to look outside the box. The inability to achieve our greatest goals, while being blinded by greed. Being blinded by the need to feel loved, safe, and comfortable. The passion for our film was a possible solution. The film features a boy in present day living in an extinct world where materialistic things are never good enough. He fights isolation, but the true obstacles come from memories and dreams of a past lover. We follow his constant inner battle of self love, being loved, or finding any TRUE connection at all.
- Nano Clow
FULL CREDITS
directed by: NANO CLOW
written and executive produced by: DYLAN SCHMID
produced by: KING LOUIE PALOMO
cinematography by: JOSEPH SCHWEERS
production design by: ANIYA GODDEN
featuring: DYLAN SCHMID | KAITLYN BERNARD
assistant director: KEN SASAKI | 2nd assistant director: LAURENT PICHE | production assistant: DIANE LEE | 1st ac: MARK LEVINSON | gaffer/grip: SIMON HUCULIAK | sound recordist: FRANCISCO CASTELLANOS | hair and makeup: BECCA RANDLE | armourers: DAN SAWORSKI, JEANNIE JIMENEZ | animal handler: KEN SASAKI | catering & craft services: KRISTA BERNARD | editor: SIMON HUCULIAK & NANO CLOW | di colourist: JOSEPH SCHWEERS | composer: CAYNE MCKENZIE | sound designer/re-recording mixer: CHRISTOPHER CLARK | post-sound finishing by: ROOTCHORD SOUND | vfx provided by: PIXEL PERFECT | vfx executive producer: EDUARDO PARRA | 3d track & layout artist: RENE ALLEGRETTI, CARLOS DE LA GARZA | fx artist: ANA LUISA LOPEZ | lighting artists: RICARDO SANTILLANA, ANA LUISA LOPEZ | compositors: GERMAN EDEN MUNOZ, CARLOS DE LA GARZA, SANDRA CORTA, JAIME GARZA, PAULINA DE VILLA
produced in association with BOOK CLUB CLASSICS
produced in cooperation of the UNION OF BC PERFORMERS
