Outside is a 2004 short film written and directed by Jenn Kao and starring Courtney Ford.See credits at http://imdb.com/title/tt0439748/
The film won the Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Film award at the 2006 Comic-Con Independent Film Festival and a 2005 DGA Student Directing Award.See list of awards at http://imdb.com/title/tt0439748/awards The film has screened at over 30 film festivals.
Plot In post-apocalyptic society, people are isolated in sealed bunkers. A young woman is forced to confront her fears of the unknown when she makes contact with an Outsider.
Production Outside was produced at the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television. It was writer/director Jenn Kao's MFA thesis film.Festival 2005, School of Theater, Film and Television / UCLA Spotlight
Reviews FilmThreat.com critic Doug Brunnel gave Outside 4 stars and called it "utterly captivating...a great film."For text of full review see http://filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=7876
Variety critic Tom McClean, part of the jury that named Outside Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Film at the 2006 Comic-Con International Film Festival, said that Outside was "like one of those great high concept sci-fi films of the 1970s".Comments appeared on McClean's Variety weblog: http://weblogs.variety.com/bags_and_boards/2006/07/cciiff_winners.html
Details Shooting format: 35mm film Running Time: 22 minutes
References
External links Official Movie Site