JUST STORIES

A senior couple experiences the isolation and uncertainty of old age.

 

 

 

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  • Official Selection at LA Film Festival (2018) 

    • [Academy-award qualifying festival]

  • Official Selection at Nashville Film Festival (2018) 

    • [Academy-award qualifying festival]

  • Official Selection at Rhode Island International Film Festival (2018) 

    • [Academy-award qualifying festival]

  • Official Selection at Carmarthen Bay Film Festival (2018) 

    • [BAFTA Cymru qualifying festival]

  • Semi-Finalist at Los Angeles Cinefest (2018)

  • Official Selection at San Louis Obispo International Film Festival (2018)

    • [MovieMaker Magazine's 'Top 50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee'​]

  • Official Selection at All American High School Film Festival (2018)

    • [World's Largest High School Film Festival]​

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2018 AAHSFF Official Selections Laurel-B

Read more about 'Just Stories'!

 

  • Aspiring Filmmaker Modi ’22 Talks Accomplishments and Inspirations​ - The Wesleyan Argus

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  • Get to Know the 2018 Future Filmmakers on the Road to the LA Film Festival - Film Independent

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"Our entire team of judges were so touched by your film and thought that all parents and grandparents in the audience will be able to relate. It was beautifully shot and impressively put together, so we are very excited to screen it at our festival this year!"

– San Louis Obispo International Film Festival

"There is this lump in my throat, and a sudden desire to get onto the plane and go home ... that’s the power of Ishan’s nuanced imagery and controlled craft." – Shalini Sinha, Pathlight Advisors

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A film exploring the loveliness in loneliness & the infinite wonder we find when we allow ourselves to bloom into the empty. A soft sense of purpose, how it sings within & around itself: this is so, this is so, this is so.

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  • Finalist of 60th CINE Golden Eagle Award for "Student & Youth Media" 

    • ​[Past student and youth recipients include Academy Award Winners Robert Zemeckis (1972), Pete Docter (1991), and Ron Howard (1972)]

  • Finalist of "Young Filmmaker" Award at My Rode Reel Film Competition (2017)

    • ​[World's Largest Short Film Competition]

  • Finalist of "Best Sound Design" Award at My Rode Reel Film Competition (2017) 

    • ​[World's Largest Short Film Competition]

  • Winner of "Best Actress" at Singapore International Student Film Festival (2017)

  • Official Selection at Across Asia Youth Film Festival (2017)

  • Official Selection at 17th Annual Laurie Nelson Film Festival (2017)

  • Official Selection at Newark International Film Festival Youth (2017)

“SUPERNOVA at its peak speaks to this: not simply isolation, but the solitude, the symphony of silence, the parts of ourselves that are vast, unknowable, marine.” – Lydia Eileen, Half Mystic

“So incredibly hollowing … made us feel like we're experiencing a universal feeling we couldn’t quite name.” 

– Kimberly Hoyos, The Light Leaks

"[A] softly-glowing, blue-hued body of filmic wonder ... poetic filmmaking at its best."

– Kanika Lawton, L'Éphémère Review

“Despite the film being short, I got sucked into it. I seemed to have blinked and it was over ... Quick, poetic, yet out of this world." – Rachel Poli