4 minutes. One desperate sprint. Zero time to breathe.
Following an environmental disaster, a man searches desperately to find a group of survivors.
Direction
Kopera compresses apocalyptic anxiety into breathless sprint.
Cinematography
Chaos captured through frantic, unrelenting camera work.
Editing
Ruthless cuts mirror protagonist's desperation—no fat, all panic.
Director
Steve Kopera
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Finder exemplifies the 'vertical slice' short film—deliberately incomplete, forcing audiences to project entire apocalypses onto its margins.
Director Steve Kopera shot this during early 2020 lockdown, using empty Los Angeles streets that would normally require expensive permits.
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