A 12-minute math competition that'll wreck your heart and make you call your mom.
Set in a 1958 televised mathematics competition, Eustice finds a friend and the courage to stand up to his mother.
Acting
Danielle Carter's chilling maternal tyranny in under 10 minutes.
Production
Perfect 1958 period detail on shoestring budget.
Direction
Lance builds entire emotional arcs in single takes.
Director
Stephen Lance
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Stephen Lance made this as his AFTRS graduation film before becoming a Cannes-selected feature director with 'My Mistress'.
The mathematics competition format subtly mirrors 1950s television's obsession with child prodigies, using historical format to explore queer-coded connection in an era of suppression.
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