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After a night of partying, newly graduated medical student Dr. Michael wakes up in an ice-bath with his kidney stolen and must go on an absurd quest to get it back.
Produced by Justin Livingston, Yeshaya Bagwell, Carlos Jimenez
Starring Drew Stroud, Andre Trahan, Jordan Allen, Zac Cino
Cinematography by Yeshaya Bagwell
Edited by Yeshaya Bagwell
Music by Andre Trahan
Justin Livingston is a New Orleans based short-film director, screenwriter, and gaffer from Natchez, Mississippi. He graduated with a Bachelor of Film Arts from the University of New Orleans and now works with the Louisiana based production company FireFaceFilms. He has worked as a gaffer alongside cinematographer Yeshaya Bagwell on short films such as, “Tell Me Why”, “The Other Room”, and the Oscar qualifying “How To Rob”, as well as the feature film “Bayouasca”. He wrote a previous FireFace Films LA Film Prize submission “Is this Real?”, and now makes his directorial debut with the dark comedy short “Harvested”.
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“Harvested” is a comedic take on a classic urban legend: you wake up in an ice bath, in the worst motel in town, and look down to find your kidney stolen. While a grizzly image, “Harvested” asks in a darkly humorous tone “what if our poor organ harvesting victim tries to get his kidney back?”
The concept has been the longstanding brainchild of the “Face” of FireFaceFilms, Yeshaya Bagwell, and after reading another script of mine he thought I was the perfect person to fill in all the blanks and, more importantly, make it funny.
Despite the grim subject matter, I wanted to inject a much absurdity into this script as I could. I learned in an acting class that “anger is dramatic, but frustration is funny” and that became the guiding principle of my poor protagonist. While likely snarky on a good day, the deranged situation Dr. Michael finds himself in exacerbates his sarcastic nature to cartoonish proportions, and every step in his increasingly surreal predicament only adds on more comedic layers of frustration.
With the help of a talented cast and crew, we found a lot more to laugh at along the way, provided you’re not too squeamish.
-Justin Livingston
