By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Julia Neill
Starring: Amanda Forstrom | Barbara Zablocky | Evan Casey | Kaylynn Creighton | Scott Barton | Zachary James Rukavina
Country: united_states
Year: 2021
Running time: 20
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7865584/reference
Diane says: “UNION (director and writer Julia Neill) is a 2017 short film now playing the Slamdance Festival for grassroots indie filmmaking and starring Chlotrudian Scott Barton. How exciting it was to see a close-up of Scott’s face as the film opens! A serious patriarch, he’s cutting down a Christmas tree to prepare for the visit of his younger daughter, a surgeon in the Civil War, and her new young man. UNION is an O. Henry kind of story, a little gem that incorporates ideas of heroism, familial relationships, and especially silence and discomfort around disability. Highly recommended.