SHELTERED | Thriller Short Film | Two Lands Presents

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SHELTERED is used with permission from Daniel Judson.

When a radicalized, home school teen becomes convinced that a girl he met at a homeless shelter is marked for human trafficking to liberal elites for a satanic ritual, he mounts a misguided quest to save her.

Starring:
Tim Johnson
Olivia Hawthorne
Zach Ball
Andrew Nicolas Starr

Written & Directed by Daniel Jamal Judson
Executive Producer: Lara Lustig
Producer: Nick Iway
Director of Photography: Evan D. Anderson
Editor: Jamal Khoury
Casting: Joy Kirk
Associate Producers: Mitch Rumfelt and Cyrus Shahmir
Music: Daniel Romano
Score: Cyrus Shahmir
Sound Recordist: W.S. Pivetta
Colorist: Stephan Derlugian

CAST:
Tim Johnson
Olivia Hawthorne
Zach Ball
Andrew Nicolas Starr
Al Al Ingram
Marissa Blake
Emily Tynan McDaniel
Bruce Browder
Michael Scott Thomas
Lauren Rivas

DIRECTOR BIO:
Daniel Jamal Judson is an award winning writer-director living in Asheville NC, where he made his short film SHELTERED. He is an alum of the IFP (Gotham) Emerging Narratives Lab with a distributed, indie-horror feature he co-wrote/produced and his work as an award winning Cinematographer; VFX Editor/Supervisor; Producer; and Director have played on AMC, HBO, MTV, BET, VH1, AllBlk, Univision, and PBS.

DIRECTOR STATEMENT:
“This is a satire about the radicalization of America, told from the point of view of a sheltered, well-intentioned teenager who experiences a pervasive type of apophenia that he interprets as metaphysical visions. Encouraged by online misinformation, his visions provide him with an inflated sense of significance and help assuage his guilt over forbidden sexual desire and feelings of inadequacy in a world that doesn’t value him as much as he believes it should. It is an indictment of our collective naiveté regarding the internet, specifically with radicalized media that pushes mentally vulnerable individuals to hatred and tragic acts of violence. It was important to me to satirize the intersection of magical thinking and propaganda that drives the anti-intellectual movement, while acknowledging its roots in our cultural stories, but more importantly, to portray a human character and dramatize not just the dangers of indulging in alternative-facts, but the danger of abandoning people who are being misled by them.” — Daniel Jamal Judson