The Line

23-minute narrative short film

A migrant father and son run out of water while crossing the desert border and must seek help from the ranch house of a Minuteman.

✭ Winner – Spirit Award at Brooklyn Int’l Film Festival 
✭ Winner – ASC Heritage Award for Cinematography
✭ Winner – Audience Award, Dances With Films
✭ Winner – Audience Award, San Luis Obispo International Film Fest

filmed on 35mm

CREW

Director/Writer: Kent Bassett
Co-Writer: Mariah Montgomery
Producers: Michelle Johnson & Kent Bassett
Cinematographer: Andrew M. Davis
Editor: Melissa Brown
Production Designer: Elexis DeLair
Sound Design: Mitch McIntire & Kyle Higgins
Assistant Directors: Will Prescott, Michael Anderson & Dan Olson
Composer: Lior Rosner

CAST
Art Bonilla: Alvaro Nuñez
John Winscher: Danny Jackson
Chic Daniel: Luke Jackson
Aldo Ceceña: Omar Nuñez
Diane Chernasky: Social Worker
Carolyn Kelly: Hospital Clerk
Tom Lewis: Roger
Sergio Lopez: Driver
Richard Piedmont: Larry
Alan Pietruszewski: Police Office
Lenya Weber: Nurse