Award Winning South African Short Film About Facing Your Past | WELCOME
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- Опубликовано: 17 апр 2020
- Welcome is an Award Winning South African Short Film About Facing Your Past.
James, a washed up South African writer needs to return to the home, he and his brother Ezekiel grew up in and he ran away from. Upon returning to the home the dark mysteries of the now empty house begin to reveal themselves again and James becomes haunted by the past he shares with the house and more importantly his now deceased father. A mysterious child, an ominous door and a broken home; James is faced with two choices run away again or confront his past.
The Award Winning South African narrative of Welcome deals with something I believe we all can in someways relate to and that is the past we share with the home we grew up in. In many ways our home is symbolic of the person we have become or the person we never want to be and this narrative addresses both those sides; the good and the bad.
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Outstanding performances and directing.
The cinematographer has done an amazing job in capturing the light and scenery. Overall impressed with team and production.
Hey Michael
I just wanted to drop you a quick message to say how blown away I was by your short film "Welcome" . The storytelling was absolutely amazing, and the way you played the future AND PAST SCENE AND THE lighting throughout the film was just brilliant. Seriously, it added such depth and emotion to the scenes.
Keep up the fantastic work fingers crossed for a Uitdaging season 2!!!!!!!!!
Thank you Elizabeth, Appreciate it! Uitdaging Season 2 😏...
I’m an inspiring filmmaker and I was looking for short films from country and I’m glad I found this 😍.Omg everything in this film is great ,cinematography, sound , acting , the story . I love it , it really deserved to win an award or awards ❤🔥🙌🏾
Keep up the good work 😊
Thank you for the kind comments. Good luck with your filmmaking journey!
This is incredible!! Top quality stuff😃 Well done💪🏽💪🏽
This is a really great film!
Beautiful piece 👏👏👏👏👏
I'm highly impressed with the camera work,music and cast... amazing storyline (of both absurdity and clarity). Good work done 👏
Oooh my goodness...round of applause 🤩🤩
Nice one
Fantastic cinematography Michael, poignant storyline. Keep up the amazing work!
This is really amazing! Great direction, performance and cinematography!
WOW! The Camera work , The sound effects etc. eveything is on point ...well done to the Team!
Well done! Powerful video man. Love the message
👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
dope.. creativity at its own best. big up.
Incredible work!!! 👏🏽 I thoroughly enjoyed watching this!
Muhle umsebenzi wakho my brother!🔥
This African experience framed in a, consciously? accessible way to middle class 'free world' audiences, worked, drawing a deep, panhuman identification with this work. This fifty yr old pakeha(euro), New Zealander, raised in a time when apartheid was a huge social moral issue in NZ, it was a reminder to update my perceptions of SA, and offered another way of reading it, historical, cultural trauma. Ha! I win coming & going! Bitchin'!. Thankyou all involved! :-)
Appreciate the comment! Looking forward to sharing even more projects in the near future.
Awesome stuff
Wow, this is spectacular! Highly impressive cinematography 🔥
Thank you so much!
Beautiful film!!!❤❤❤👏👏👏👏👏
Thanks so much Tia! I am so glad you enjoyed it.
This is what I like to call a job well done
Thanks Elvis 🔥 appreciate it.
This is outstanding !👏👌🙌
Thank you so much for watching!!
So nice
Nice!
Good stuff...when I grow up😊😂
Beautiful work 🙏🏼🎬🙏🏼
Thanks!!!
This is amazing!! 😭
Thanks Vunene! Glad you enjoyed it!
The use of color here, in every scene agh man. How you captured the nostalgia with the sound effect of the conversations when the mother was there. It had this almost nostalgic feel to it. The composition (I don't know anything technical based) you made it easy on the eye.
The story though is one the stands true, I will where I can share this for it saved my life and I know alot more can be moved by it.
Thank you, honestly I did not know such existed here. Agh I'm excited.
@@MichaelOdendaal would mind it if I sharerd on our blog. The whole point of blog is about, just trying to get better as individuals in every sense, which I sincerely believe this is also about. It recently went up, it will just link to you. All your credit will be given. Here is the url so you can witness for yourself...... www.betrs.co.za
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If you want, you can see the post and short description we came up with. Thank you so much Micheal. For this piece of work, I apologize for my over eagerness. It's just I get super stoked when something stands to true to my heart and has cool visual effects. Have a good day. I am fan.
my short film : ruclips.net/video/bcqHVhVeykY/видео.html
Wow great production 👏
Thanks!
POWEFUL
amazing.
Thanks Gabriella!
awesome!! i need to face mine
Thanks for watching - More to come!
So clean clear and hot💥💥💥
Thanks man! Glad you enjoyed it.
Eooow The Camera work!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😭
Glad you enjoyed it man!
What camera did you use?
Very well done
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it.
@@MichaelOdendaal most definitely bro, currently browsing for a cam to shoot my first film. I am based in kzn, any suggestions
@@MichaelOdendaal Hi Michael, great work. We are hosting a Pan African festival in October, we would love to include this film in our screening. Kindly share your email if this interests you.
Im interested in licensing this film how do i get hold of you
Would love to work with the director one day. This is the kind of content I imagine when I imagine epic local filmmaking.
Thanks so much! Directing this film was truly special! Glad you enjoyed it.
Great sound design.
Thank you!
The story is great even though it could have and probably should have given a bit more insights into the activities of the past whether they were brutal (physical or sexual violence) to the protagonist, or not. Right now I'm just guessing that it could have been a brutal past but I'm not entirely sure about that. Apart from the above, it's an effective story. However, all the adult actors were completely and utterly miscast, which is a shame. I didn't believe any of them as parents or the grown up children of those parents, much less those actors as parents. It unfortunately made the story not to ring true at all, thinking that all the adult actors should look a lot more matured than these actors. Furthermore, rendering the entire film as a well-made student film.
This is truly spectacular!🤍🤌🏾
Appreciate the comment! Thanks for watching!