Category: STORY

TITLE: The Red Thread
FORMAT: Vertical 9:16, 30 seconds, TEASER_30S, English dialogue
LOGLINE: During a family breakfast, four-year-old Nora is stopped from completing the small stitching ritual her late mother began, while her stepmother quietly replaces Nora’s place with her own daughter’s.

On the morning of the school heritage fair, four-year-old Milo stood beneath the coat hooks while his stepmother, Dana, lifted the little tin sparrow from its nail.

Mara stood on a kitchen chair while Elise lifted the little tin sparrow from the highest shelf.

Milo stood on the kitchen chair, reaching for the small green lunch tin above the refrigerator.

Milo was four when his stepfather moved the red lunch tin from the lowest pantry shelf to the top cupboard.

On the morning of the school family breakfast, four-year-old Milo stood on a kitchen chair and watched Claire lift the brass bell from the highest cupboard.

Mara stood on tiptoe while Julian lifted the little music box from the breakfast shelf.

Mara moved the blue tin box above the pantry cabinets while four-year-old Elsie watched from the kitchen floor.

Four-year-old Nora stood on the attic stairs while her stepmother, Elise, lifted the red music box from the highest shelf.