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
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
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.