Three minutes. One prospector. Zero chill when the wrong outlaw shows up.
A Prospector finally finds what he is looking for, everything is going his way! Until a dangerous outlaw approaches him…
Direction
Calvin Vander Horst squeezes feature-film tension into 180 seconds.
Acting
Father-son duo communicating everything through glances and stillness.
Director
Calvin Vander Horst
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Calvin and Quinn Vander Horst are father and son; this was reportedly shot in a single afternoon on family property with borrowed props.
The title 'Nugget' works triple-duty: gold nugget, chicken nugget (the Prospector's pathetic lunch), and the film itself—a tiny, dense thing.
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