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MARCH 21 - COAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL - LAGOS, NIGERIA
MARCH 29-31 - MIAMI INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE FICTION FILM FESTIVAL - MIAMI, FLORIDA
APRIL 2-6 - CHICAGO SOUTHLANDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
APRIL 4-14 - THE INTERNATIONAL HORROR AND SCI-FI FILM FESTIVAL - PHOENIX, ARIZONA
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APRIL 19-21 - THE EUROPEAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL - PARIS, FRANCE
APRIL 19-21 - JUGGERNAUT FILM FESTIVAL - CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
APRIL 21-28 - THE NORTHERN VIRGINIA INTERNATIONAL FILM & MUSIC FESTIVAL - ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA
APRIL 24-28 - WORLDFEST HOUSTON - HOUSTON, TEXAS
MAY 1-7 - INTERNATIONAL LABOR FILM FESTIVAL - IZMIR, ISTANBUL, & ANKARA, TURKEY
MAY 4-5 - ATOMACON FILM FESTIVAL - NORTH CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
JUNE 22 - CLOSE-UP INTERNATION FILM FESTIVAL - PORT MOODY, BRITISH COLUMBIA
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LOGLINE
In a violent, dystopian future, a single mother attempts to grow a dragon fruit sprout so she can one day sell it for cash.
SYNOPSIS
DRAGON FRUIT stars Yvonne Chapman as The Mother, a lone woman forced to make ends meet while caring for her son in an awful, dystopian world. Told largely without dialogue, the film follows her as she struggles to grow a small plant sprout into a fully-ripened dragon fruit. If she can sell it for enough money, and if she can survive, she might be able to afford a better life for her and her son...but honestly, at this point, she’d settle for a small vacation.
Inspired by Canada’s now-annual record-breaking wildfire seasons, the award-winning DRAGON FRUIT is set in a smoggy, hellish world where the atmosphere itself has become toxic to breathe, and the gap between rich and poor has never been worse. Drinking water is scarce, militarized police roam the streets terrorizing regular people, and greed is the only ideology everyone understands.
Produced through the crucible of the pandemic, writer-director J.Brown designed and created nearly all the props, costumes, set pieces and visual effects himself, mostly in his apartment, and mostly on his own. With a boost from creative powerhouse Crystal Mountain Films, J.Brown and his company Rattlesnake Films were able to stretch a shoestring budget into an epic short film, creating a unique portrait of a world that feels all too familiar.
DIRECTOR
J.Brown is a director, producer, and animator based out of Vancouver, BC. He has nearly 20 years of experience working in television, feature film, and video games, working on massive titles like Stranger Things, The Mandalorian, and The Avengers movies. He created all costumes, props, and visual effects for DRAGON FRUIT in his apartment on his own—partly to save money, and partly because there was a pandemic and he had nothing else to do. He also built two sets, acted as locations manager, and played the character of Mr. Mystery Meats, because after all this work, there’s no way he wasn’t gonna be in this thing. Identifying marks include a rattlesnake tattoo on his arm and a beard on his face. So far, he is bald.