Short film BIND in competition at the 2021 Florida Film Festival

Onerva Pictures’ short film BIND, directed by Inka Rusi and produced by Sara Fenton and Tanja Rusi has been selected to the Narrative Shorts Program at the 30th Florida International Film Festival (April 9 – 22, 2021). As it has been selected for competition the film will be eligible for the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short. The full festival line up will be announced on the 17th of March 2021.

Set in Southern California in the late 1970s and inspired by true events, BIND is a film about a teenage girl who tries to come to terms with her abusive father during a road trip to the desert. 

Shot in a highly cinematic style, BIND has noticeable touches of the Western genre that act as a subtle reference to the origins of American gun culture. The film peers into the tense relationship between the teenage Brenda and her father, watching him, undone by the trauma his own life has been, plant the seeds that will become her undoing. 

“Over the years I have watched so many shorts about sexual exploitation that didn't have anything to say and felt oddly exploitative themselves, so it was really great to see a short like BIND that evolved beyond that. A gut punch of a short… Also, stellar first shot.”

–Levin Menekse, writer &  producer

Florida Film Festival is an Academy Award qualifying festival and is one of Moviemaker Magazine’s 50 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee.

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