The Loneliest Boy in the World | Post-Apocalyptic Short Film Ft. Dylan Schmid (Snowpiercer, 1922)
The Loneliest Boy in the World | Post-Apocalyptic Short Film Ft. Dylan Schmid (Snowpiercer, 1922)
As the last person on earth, a young man faces off against his greatest enemy: his own thoughts.
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'The Loneliest Boy in the World' by NANO CLOW - https://www.nanoclow.com/
"This was the first thing that I had ever directed that I hadn’t written. It was an interesting challenge to try and bring someone else’s vision to life. Mind you, there were a lot of rewrites in order to make this thing happen. What I most wanted to explore was having an omniscient point of view in this apocalyptic setting to really emphasise the isolation.
That’s where the film was so important. We can step back and look at this character from a third person point of view. You’ll see lots of shots that are hundreds of feet away, long takes and long pans that make our main character feel very small and lonely. I think that played really well against his extreme intensity and agony. It kind of made it funny in a poetic way. That’s what I was excited about. Even the title — The Loneliest Boy in the World — is kind of a joke. It makes his plight feel very insignificant. It was so exciting to explore the end of the world in a funny, but also kind of removed way."
READ OUR FULL INTERVIEW WITH NANO - https://directorsnotes.com/2020/10/14/nano-clow-the-loneliest-boy-in-the-world/
Producer - King Louie Palomo
Executive Producer - Dylan Schmid
Cinematographer - Joseph Schweers
Editors - Nano Clow & Simon Huculiak
Makeup Artist - Becca Randle
First Assistant Director - Ken Sasaki
Second Assistant Director - Laurent Piche
Sound Mixer - Francisco Castellanos
Re-recording Mixer / Sound Designer - Christopher Clark
Layout Artist: Pixel Perfect VFX - Rene Allegretti
Visual Effects Coordinator: Pixel Perfect Vfx - Ana Luisa López Segovia
Compositing Supervisor: Pixel Perfect Vfx - German Eden Munoz
Visual Effects Producers - Pixel Perfect VFX: Eduardo Parra Ouilhet & King Louie Palomo
BTS Photographer - Sara Daruvala
Grip/Gaffer - Simon Huculiak
First Assistant Camera - Mark Levinson
Camera Operator - Joseph Schweers
Armourers - Jeannie Jimenez & Dan Saworski
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As the last person on earth, a young man faces off against his greatest enemy: his own thoughts.
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‘The Loneliest Boy in the World’ by NANO CLOW – https://www.nanoclow.com/
“This was the first thing that I had ever directed that I hadn’t written. It was an interesting challenge to try and bring someone else’s vision to life. Mind you, there were a lot of rewrites in order to make this thing happen. What I most wanted to explore was having an omniscient point of view in this apocalyptic setting to really emphasise the isolation.
That’s where the film was so important. We can step back and look at this character from a third person point of view. You’ll see lots of shots that are hundreds of feet away, long takes and long pans that make our main character feel very small and lonely. I think that played really well against his extreme intensity and agony. It kind of made it funny in a poetic way. That’s what I was excited about. Even the title — The Loneliest Boy in the World — is kind of a joke. It makes his plight feel very insignificant. It was so exciting to explore the end of the world in a funny, but also kind of removed way.”
READ OUR FULL INTERVIEW WITH NANO – https://directorsnotes.com/2020/10/14/nano-clow-the-loneliest-boy-in-the-world/
Producer – King Louie Palomo
Executive Producer – Dylan Schmid
Cinematographer – Joseph Schweers
Editors – Nano Clow & Simon Huculiak
Makeup Artist – Becca Randle
First Assistant Director – Ken Sasaki
Second Assistant Director – Laurent Piche
Sound Mixer – Francisco Castellanos
Re-recording Mixer / Sound Designer – Christopher Clark
Layout Artist: Pixel Perfect VFX – Rene Allegretti
Visual Effects Coordinator: Pixel Perfect Vfx – Ana Luisa López Segovia
Compositing Supervisor: Pixel Perfect Vfx – German Eden Munoz
Visual Effects Producers – Pixel Perfect VFX: Eduardo Parra Ouilhet & King Louie Palomo
BTS Photographer – Sara Daruvala
Grip/Gaffer – Simon Huculiak
First Assistant Camera – Mark Levinson
Camera Operator – Joseph Schweers
Armourers – Jeannie Jimenez & Dan Saworski
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