ROADKILL
A Southern Gothic thriller that follows a homeless woman and a young, upper-middle class girl as their lives tragically intertwine.
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Justin T. MaloneDirector
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Bailey InmanWriter
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Justin T. MaloneWriter
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O'Shay ForemanProducer
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Justin T. MaloneProducer
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Noelle BeardProducer
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Nathan ChinProducer
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Lauren GunnKey Cast"Hannah"
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Linda JacksonKey Cast"Rhonda"
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Zach ChurchKey Cast"Dillon"
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John SneedKey Cast"Police Officer #1"
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Tamara WrightKey Cast"Police Officer #2"
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Joy MurphyKey Cast"Hannah's Mom"
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Project Type:Short
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Runtime:13 minutes 50 seconds
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Completion Date:May 1, 2021
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Production Budget:9,500 USD
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:2.35
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:Yes - University of Memphis
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Southern Oasis Film FestivalKnoxville, TN
United States
May 14, 2022
Winner, Best Student Film -
Southern Film FestivalLa Grange, Georgia
United States
August 28, 2021
World Premiere
Official Selection -
Indie Memphis Film FestivalMemphis, Tennessee
United States
October 22, 2021
Tennessee Premiere
Official Selection -
Franklin International Indie Film FestivalFranklin, Tennessee
United States
November 12, 2021
Official Selection
Justin T. Malone is a rising Southern filmmaker with an eye for the grotesque, profane, and darkly humorous. Working in the Southern Gothic literary tradition, Justin's films typically focus on working class rural Southerners like the people he grew up around in West Tennessee.
ROADKILL, an expressionistic crime thriller, is Justin's 6th short film. It explores the multiplicity of experiences between the oppressed and the privileged in contemporary Southern society.
I grew up in rural Tennessee, in a place where lives are lived hard and short. Through good luck and hard work on my parents’ part, we climbed the social and financial ladder and when I was 14 we moved to an affluent town outside Nashville, a place where teenagers drive luxury cars and dream of escaping from their “oppressive” hometowns. I don’t care to waste time condemning children who didn’t know better and are probably mostly decent adults now, but I did grow to see something ironic in the way that the people who often have the most derision for “The South” (whatever that means) are the ones who benefit the most from its various inequities—social, racial, and economic. ROADKILL is a film that seeks to investigate these ironies and challenge its viewers to think about the way the middle and upper classes in America often fail and unintentionally victimize the less fortunate.