Bairfilm’s next short film will be the short dramatic thriller “Descensus ad Mortem”.
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This film took its first steps in 2009, when Eric Phillips came to me with this idea for a comedy about a nerd who purchases a mail order bride and the awkwardness between this hot girl and this socially inept guy. I told Eric if you want to make it a comedy there has to be a twist that amps up the hilarity. So I said the mail order bride has to be male. From there Mr. Phillips and I created an outline and started throwing around dialogue that came to mind while fleshing out our two main characters: the nerd and the male order bride.
In June of 2009, during my first trip to the big island of Hawaii, I began to bring the script to life. I wanted to create a film that didn’t rely on gross out comedy or swearing. My goal was to create a modern day Billy Wilder style comedy,
one that was a mixture of slapstick and smart hilarious dialogue. As I wrote the
words to paper, the film quickly became more to me than just some simple film to make you laugh. It became a film about prejudice, gay rights and accepting who you are in a society that disconnects itself with the growth of technology.
@Social #Connection has been selected in an awards competition that recognizes the best filmmakers from vimeo. Please watch, share and vote for @Social #Connection on Awardeo.tv,
The award winning romantic dramedy short film “@Social #Connection” made its online premiere. Written and directed by Eric Bair and starring Gregory Shelby and Holly Maag, the story follows a couple connected by technology that are faced with relearning to connect without it when a massive power failure hits their area. Shot in the style of a black and white silent film to creatively explore the modern trend of texting and social media replacing conversation and physical human interaction. “I felt this was the best way to tell this story as we are already kind of living in a silent film with all this texting over talking”, said writer/director Eric Bair, “Phones seem to have become our best friend.”
The biggest challenge during production was directing a scene with a full on conversation without speaking. “I had to figure out how to follow along with the texting back and forth so that I could give the actor’s notes on their performances. I couldn’t exactly look over their shoulders at their phones. Ironically, technology was the answer”, said Eric Bair. The iPhones used during production were connected to both an iPad and a MacBook, which allowed the director to follow the dialogue off screen. They also came in handy for queuing the production assistant for the key power outage scene.
After premiering at a few film festivals, the short ended its festival tour with an award win at the 48th Annual Worldfest Houston International Film Festival, taking home the Platinum Remi Award for Dramatic – Original Independent Shorts on April 18th, 2015. This is the same festival that discovered Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ang Lee, John Lee Hancock, Randall Kleiser, Ridley Scott, Robert Rodriguez, Robert Townsend, The Coen Brothers, Spike Lee, Oliver Stone and David Lynch with their very first awards.
Bairfilm’s award winning romantic dramedy short film “@Social #Connection” will premiere online for the first time on Sunday, July 19th, 2015. #GETCONNECTEDJULY19TH
“@Social #Connection” won the Platinum Remi Award for Dramatic-Original Independent Shorts at the 48th Annual Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival on Saturday, April 18th, 2015. Director Eric Bair accepted the award at the Worldfest Awards gala.
“@Social #Connection”, a romantic dramedy short film, will have it’s Texas Premiere at the Worldfest Houston International Film Festival in April(http://worldfest.org/shorts-schedule/?e=61302&b=2). Director/writer Eric Bair will be at the festival for a Q&A following the screening.
This is my first horror short and first film out of film school. It was challenging as this was also the first time shooting underwater on low to no budget. Couldn’t afford an underwater camera, so we used a clear plastic air tight cookie jar and plumbers tape to protect the camera.
How far would you go to attain society’s fake perfection? A dramatic short film about finding out what it means to be truly beautiful.