“We Go On,” a witty short film about two old-timers living out their final days in a hospice care facility, earned the $10,000 top award this week at the second annual Memphis Film Prize festival.
Provided mostly by corporate sponsors, the cash prize — among the largest for a regional film festival — went to director Matteo Servente. He said the money will be used to fund a second collaboration with Corey Mesler and Joseph Carr, the screenwriter and producer, respectively, of “We Go On.”
Filled with the comical and thoughtful ruminations one might expect from a first script by Mesler (the owner of Burke’s Book Store and a published novelist and poet), “We Go On” stars Bill Baker and Curtis C. Jackson as two dying but mostly sharp-witted and still flirty men whose last days are enlivened by the presence of a tolerant nurse (Emma Crystal). Even though it takes place in a series of sterile hospice community rooms and bedrooms, the film — which has a runtime of 12:41 — never feels claustrophobic, thanks to the wily performances, Servente’s direction, and the fluid camerawork of veteran lenser Ryan Earl Parker.
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