Baby Brother

TIMMY Thomas Parobek

LUCY Ashley Jordyn

TOM Ron Fallica

MARY Marcia Ferguson

Writer/Director Harold Batista

Producer Janelle Saint-Eloi

Post Producer Jennifer Low

Director of Photography Xunzi Ma

Editor Noah Horton

Sound Design Jacob Kinch

Original Music by Eros Cartechini

Titles by Troy Curtis Zaretsky-Kreiner

Color Zoe Camina

11:40 minutes, 4K video. Funded project.

TRAILER

PRESS KIT

It’s the mid-eighties and six-year-old Timmy is going to be a big brother. There is nothing he wants more in life than the premiere home video game system. When his mother loses the pregnancy, Timmy offers to give up his video game savings to buy a new baby brother.

JURIED AWARDS & HONORS
Semi-Finalist, Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, Providence, RI

Shortlisted, Online Audience Award, Short of the Year - Winter Edition, Promofest, Spain

Best Graduate Film, Diamond Screen Film Festival, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Best Graduate Screenplay, Diamond Screen Film Festival, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

JURIED GRANTS

Student Grant Award, The Caucus Foundation for Producers, Writers & Directors. $1,000

JURIED SCREENINGS

Ljubljana International Short Film Festival - EUROPANORAMA, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Virginia Emerging Filmmakers Festival, Winchester, VA

Best of Fests 2024, cinéSPEAK, Philadelphia, PA

CyBorg Film Festival XII international edition, Anghiari Italy

Short of the Year - Winter Edition, Promofest, Spain

(private) 78th UFVA Conference, Cleveland, OH

(private) Jack Carton Diamond Film Screening, Dolby Screening Room, New York, NY

(private) Diamond Screen Film Festival, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Vamos, Gustavo

GUSTAVO David Arturo Sanchez

SOFIA Ava Alves-Wrubel

SARA Julie Czarnecki

Director Harold Batista

Writers Harold Batista, Christhian Diaz

Producers Jennifer Low, Mae Stokes

Director of Photography Jalen Ramseur-Williams

Edited by David Wilf

Production Designer Tyrone Zhang

16 minutes, 4K video. Funded project. In Post Production

TEASER

Lodged between two cyclones, Gustavo breaks his promise to evacuate just as coastguards arrive to his south Florida neighborhood. Ending up on the state deportation registry was just another form of predictable peril for him. Left alone with young Sofia after his fiancée Sara flees, he must protect the only home and family he’s ever known in America.

JURIED AWARDS
Best Cinematography, Diamond Screen Film Festival, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Best Graduate Screenplay, Diamond Screen Film Festival, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Best Editor, BFA/BA Masterclass Screening, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

JURIED GRANTS
TFMA Alumni Grant, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. $250

Philadelphia Student Mediamaker, Scribe Video Center with Independence Public Media Foundation, Philadelphia, PA. $1,500

JURIED SCREENINGS

(private) Diamond Screen Film Festival, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Once, Upon Some Stars

Written by Zachary Tyler Vickers

Story by Harold Batista

In Development

Two siblings administer wishes upon the stars until one feels weighed down by the chore.