Coming-of-age short film on teenage rebellion | Hardcore Halbert - by Riley Sweeney Lynch

Halbert is a sad young lad trying to tend to an ailing ficus plant. Despite his vigorous watering regimen, the ficus will not grow. One day, heavy metal music drifts over his neighbor's fence, causing a new leaf to sprout from the sapling. Halbert quickly picks up the music as a new passion. His mother, however, wants him to stop wasting time on his ever-rotating wheel of hobbies, and to focus on his future. Determined, Halbert commits to the metal music with the aid of his neighbor, Abby, and is not only able to make his ficus flourish, but himself as well.

This short film was selected at the Champs-Élysées Film Festival in 2022

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Original title - Hardcore Halbert
Director - Riley Sweeney Lynch
Writer - Craig Lief
Producers - Maria Sara Santoro, Max Pearce
Cinematography - John Burroughs Hanle
Production Design - Jasmine Fini and Dashiell Demeter
Assistant Director - Subhro Das
Editing - Santos Herrera and Ian Kent
Sound Designer - Esther Kim
Soundtrack - Prateek Rajagopal, Riley Sweeney Lynch
Cast - Jack Kilmer, Rene Leech, Joanne Whalley
Year - 2021

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