Hi Everyone,

In the mood to watch an old fashioned short film?  Well, this is one of mine, an oldie but goody.  It's called "Alone," written and directed by me (Clayton Broomes, Jr).  It's a bittersweet tale about an older man who makes an instant connection with a young woman that leads them on a spiritual journey of tragedy revolved around the issue of depression, culminating to a startling realization.  The story is told without dialogue, just music in the audio.   You can't get more old fashioned than that.

The short film was shot in the fall of 2005 for a few hundred dollars and prepped for the 2006 film festival circuit.  To our dismay, the film was panned by almost all film festivals.  It did eventually screen at three film festivals in 2006 -- Roxbury Film Festival, Imagenation Film Festival and Urban Mediamakers Film Festival.  It didn't win anything either.  But don't be too quick the judge film because of this, considering the bureaucracies that destroyed independent film, starting with the film school institutions ending with Hollywood conglomerates. 

However, the film garnered some unexpected momentum in 2007 when the kind people at BETJ's "The Best Shorts Showcase" recruited the film for their fall 2007 season.  And just before that, on my birthday in 2007 (September 21), the film and I were mentioned in The New York Times.  It was an unexpected birthday present influenced by a local screening I didn't attend because I was in production for "Pro-Black Sheep" at the time.  So, for me, "Alone" ended up with a happy ending after all.

So without any further a due, from 2006, here's "Alone" (NO DIALOGUE-00:24:43):

ALONE - PART ONE


ALONE - PART TWO


ALONE - PART THREE


If you made this far, maybe you're willing to go a little further by going to IMDB.com and rating the film.  Thank you for watching.

Sincerely,

Clayton Broomes, Jr.