Auspicious
Short Film
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Over summer break, a young dancer, Castara, reluctantly returns home to work on the family weed farm and save money for dance school. But home has shifted into a different orbit. Despite a strong pull toward her childhood friend, Cody, she seeks an auspicious moment to break free and elevate to a higher plane.
Filmed on and around the slopes of Mt. Hood, Auspicious culminates with a final sequence filmed in real time in the path of totality of a solar eclipse.
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Writer, Directer: Grant Slater
DP: Kevin Hayden
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Sandra Ruiz Morlett as Castara
Jordan Hearn as Cody
Sage Price as Trey
Wills Brewer as The Hippie
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Original Score: Kyle Scott Wilson
Editor: Matthew Puccini, Grant Slater
Colorist: Tess Stuart
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With support from Vacation Theory