A backpack, a bully, and a shuttle breaking apart—childhood ends in 73 seconds.
It's 1986, Shannon Crane means to be bound for a future she cannot know, on a day filled with possibility and hope. In her 7th grade class, Shannon has to reckon with the ordinary calamity of being herself after a simultaneous incident of being bullied, is caught between the extraordinary catastrophic event of the space challenger disaster, leaving a debris of searching, questioning.
Acting
Erika Dietz carries unspeakable weight in near-wordless scenes.
Direction
Gardner weaponizes the Challenger's 73 seconds against a child's entire afternoon.
Production
Period-perfect Newfoundland classroom that reeks of 1986 despair.
Director
Stacy Gardner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Challenger disaster was the first tragedy televised live in classrooms; an entire generation learned that aspiration could literally blow up in real time.
Gardner shot in an actual decommissioned Newfoundland school; the cold you see is the cold they felt.
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