28 minutes of punches, paranoia, and poor life choices.
A noir action thriller about an amateur MMA fighter who is quickly and unknowingly thrust into the world of a criminal organization.
Practical Effects
Raw fight choreography that actually looks like it hurts.
Direction
Burquist squeezes feature-level tension into under 30 minutes.
Director
Justin Burquist
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Justin Burquist shot this in 2012 after maxing out credit cards to fund it, then spent a year in post-production while working repo jobs—yes, like his protagonist.
This micro-budget noir emerged during the 2010s boom of 'digital noir' shorts that proved you didn't need studio money to make crime cinema feel legit.
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