After a successful business meeting, a man is guilt tripped into calling his mom.

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☎️ Call Your Mom
Dir. Isaac Garza

Nothing pleases me more than when a comedy stretches out a joke properly. It’s akin to Tarantino and his rubberband analogy—yes, it’s comedy instead of suspense, but it is no less a bravura high-wire act. How far can an absurdity be pushed? Will the writers simply run out of ideas? Will some element of its craft or the performance turn the excitement of escalation into sour dread as the proverbial horse is beaten to death?

The upside is worth the risk because sometimes it leads to a film like Call Your Mom, which takes a fairly simple joke and stretches it out like Laffy Taffy. Even better, director Isaac Garza and his team inexplicably (but awesomely) decide that the inherent challenge of a stretched-out joke film should be matched in difficulty by the effort to capture it. So, the short’s 8-minute runtime is an elaborate oner, one of the best we’ve recently seen, and captured in a true, single long-take.' - S/W Curator, Jason Sondhi

FULL REVIEW: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2023/1...

CAST + CREW:

Starring: Pete Parsons, Isaac Garza, Maddie Cordovano, Mason Pitluk, Tana Rogers, Linzy Beltran, Gayland Williams, Franny Harold

Writer/Director: Isaac Garza
Producer: Rebecca Mendoza
EP: Aaron Brown, James Rodriguez
DP: Zach Morrison
Production Design: Mackenzie McMahon
Composer: Braden Deal
1st AD:Jeff Kardesch
2nd AD: Matthew Harrington
Steadicam Operator: Heather Grothues
1st AC: Cassie Coker
2nd AC: Sav Gowling
Gaffer: Tiger Hill
Key Grip: Brayden Read
Key PA: Oscar De La Garza
Art: Sam Rogerts Scout Gutzmerson
Sound team: Tiago Da Silva, Matt Kluchin, Corey McMinn
PA: Liz Tyson, Roxanne Hill, Gabriel Garcia Andy Avila
Special Thanks: Aduro, MPS Studios, Texas Film Commission, Erica Prasad

BTS: Phrank, Raymond Castro

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