When Hal discovers and restores a damaged android he must let go of the past in order to give the living a chance at a future.

"The Collector" by Ihsanul Huq

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When Hal discovers a damaged Android named MIA on the beach he takes her back to his desert home to reconstruct her. Hal, whose wife is in a coma and is dying of an incurable infection, hopes to turn MIA into a home and health aide but limited by the amount of power he can divert from life support for his wife he can only charge MIA on batteries he must leave the home to find. When MIA awakes she insists that she must be charged to full capacity on house power in order to flee the dangerous people pursuing her leaving Hal with a life and death choice.

"The Collector" Credits:
DIRECTOR - IHSANUL HUQ
WRITER - TYLER SCHWARTZ
PRODUCERS - TONY SHI & HATUEY RODRIGUEZ
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY - DEVON JOHNS
PRODUCTION DESIGNERS - JIAJIN CHEN & MARIA-SARA SANTORO COSTUME DESIGNER - SELENA JIN
EDITORS - KAYLA SUN & ALEXA VILLARREAL
SOUND RECORDISTS/DESIGNERS - SAM HOBSON & NATHANIEL POPE 1ST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR - ANANT MEHRA
MUSIC COMPOSER - JUSTIN SCHORNSTEIN

CAST
HAL - FRANK COLLISON
MIA - ANDREA NELSON
THE AGENT - BEN CUNIS
THE JUNK DEALER. - JONATHEN ‘PANTERA’ WALLACE
CAROL - SARAH LILLY

CREW
ART DIRECTOR - MENGQING YUAN
SET DRESSER - TIANZE SUN
HAIR AND MAKE-UP ARTIST - BRENNAN JONES
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER - JOSIAS CHAVEZ
CASTING BY - KARA SULLIVAN
ACTION DESIGN BY - BEN CUNIS
FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER - JONATHEN ‘PANTERA’ WALLACE
PRE-VISUALIZATION STUNT PERFORMERS - BEN CUNIS, ANDREA NELSON, HARKIN SMITH, JONATHEN ‘PANTERA’ WALLACE
2ND ASSISTANT DIRECTORS - BIJAN KAZEROONI & CHRISTIAN PIERCE
SCRIPT SUPERVISOR - BIJAN KAZEROONI, CHRISTIAN PIERCE, KAYLA SUN, ALEXA VILLARREAL
1ST ASSISTANT CAMERA - ASHLEY AGREN, HENRY CHENEY, CHAOCHEN LI, CODY WILSON, SAM YASSA
2ND ASSISTANT CAMERA - HENRY CHENEY, CRAIG LIEF, EMILY MAYA MILLS, JOSH POWELL, MARC VAN HOLT
GAFFER - JOHN HANLE, TONY TEHLE, RAYNER HALLERA
KEY GRIP - CHRIS BRIDGES, AARON KURTZMAN
GRIP AND ELECTRIC - CHANDLER BERG, ANDREW FERGUSON, ISRAEL GOMEZ, SANTOS HERRERA, NOAH KANG, ESTHER KIM, CRAIG LIEF, LILITH MO, MAX PEARCE, OSCAR RAMOS, CALEB SMITH, FINBAR SOMERS, RICHARD SUE, DANIEL WILLARD
ART PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS - SID DALVI, NEHA DHABALE, NICHOLAS KLESMITH, BEI LAMENG, YAXING LIN, OSCAR O’REILLY, HAMMAD RIZVI, OLIVIA SOKOL, RICHARD SUE, CHARLIE TURNER, VICTORIA SHAN WANG, RUNQUING WEN, LISA XIAO, YIFAN ZHAO
PROJECTION ARTIST - CRYSTAL JOW
POST PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR - HATUEY RODRIGUEZ
SOUND EDITOR - CABBA JIAXUAN CAI
VFX COMPOSITOR - MARTIN HUMPHREY
VFX DIGITAL MATTE PAINTER - MARIO ARNONE
VFX MOTION GRAPHICS ARTIST - PARKER CHATHAM
COLORIST - DEVON JOHNS
CREDITS ARTIST - CRAIG LIEF
MUSIC SPOTTING - JAMES GRISOM
MUSICIANS - ISAAC MAILACH, ALEXANDER MANSOUR
RADIO VOICE ACTOR - BENJAMIN BARAAD

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