The film premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival in as part of "Shorts Program One" with eight sold out screenings. It has since screened at Sedona, Method Fest, Indianapolis, Maryland, O.C. Shorts Festival, Toronto's World Wide Short Film Festival, L.A.'s HypeFest, New York's VisionFest and the Tahoe/Reno festival. More recently the film has screened at Palm Springs, San Diego, Chicago the Eerie Horror Film Festival and Screamfest LA where the film was honored with the award for Best Horror Short.
For other Case Sensitive Films visit casesensitivefilms.com.
For more of Toby Wilkins' directing work see tobywilkins.com.
PROUD
WINNER
Best Horror Short
Screamfest LA
Horror Film Festival 2005
On-line indie film magazine Film Threat says:
"Staring at the Sun is so absorbing and consistently unsettling
that my only complaint would be its paltry running time.
It’s a great short, but would be an even better feature."
Ain't
it Cool News says this about Sundance Shorts Program One:
"Hands down, the best shorts program I have ever screened
at a film festival."
Atom
Films says:
"it gave me two near heart attacks... great stuff well done..."
Starring Alec Newman
with Saxon Trainor, Nick Nordella
and Darin Brooks, Randy Crowder,
Dirk Etchison, Jocko Sims
Screenplay by Toby Wilkins
Story by Paul Sopocy
Line Producer Jay Chapman
Director of Photography Kirk Douglas
Edited by Sheila Moreland
Production Designer Rebecca J Keeling
Music by Jeffrey Hepker
Casting by Matt Skrobalak & Marisa Ross
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