Film Courage: How do you keep an audience guessing and surprise them with plot twists?
Writer/Director/Actor Adam Cushman: The only feature of the two that you could apply that to I think is RESTRAINT that is suspense-driven in a sense and there is…I wouldn’t say withholding…it’s letting the audience figure it out for themselves. I like using negative space and I like leaving things to people’s imagination and giving them just enough. If you show the foot, you can see the rest of the person. I think it’s stronger when you’re left to imagine…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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This is the third feature from Writer/Director Scott Dunn and Producer Gina Gomez Dunn. They successfully raised funds for the sequel via Kickstarter and managed to complete production only 2 days before all film productions shut down due to the pandemic. Because of the lockdowns, Scott Dunn had to tackle post-production by himself (editing, color correction, effects, and sound) and release the flick in time for the holidays.
