Robby
A young homeless man casts aside his own troubles in order to help a friend battling addiction but at the cost of failing to realize his own struggles with his past.
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Steven Dickson Jr.DirectorApiphobia, Sad: By Lamp
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Francisco CalderonWriterAeternum
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Steven Dickson Jr.WriterApiphobia, Sad: By Lamp
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Steven Dickson Jr.ProducerApiphobia, Sad: By Lamp
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Jesse McCloskeyProducerSolidarity, Charge, Without Grace, Art
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Vincent MoranProducerPaper Walls, Break, Petrichor
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Francisco CalderonProducerAeternum
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Francisco CalderonKey CastAeternum, Without Grace, Art
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Kara TraceyKey CastSolidarity, Art
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Kenneth HurstKey CastSolidarity, Charge, Without Grace, Art
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Justin CrespoKey CastSad: By Lamp
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Project Type:Short
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Genres:Drama Film
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Runtime:34 minutes 34 seconds
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Completion Date:August 10, 2017
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Production Budget:0 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:Sony A7S and Panasonic GH4
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Reno Tahoe International Film FestivalReno, Nevada
United States
September 9, 2017
4:00pm
Audience Choice Award for Best Dramatic Short Film. Nominated for Best Nevada Filmmaker. Nominated for Best Actor.
Born in Carson City Nevada, and raised in Reno Nevada, Steven Dickson Jr. first founded his love for filmmaking in high school when he was assigned to come up with a creative way to remake the assassination scene in "Julius Ceasar". Later, as high school came and went. Steven, now in his second year of college pursuing a career as a comic book artist, came face to face yet again with a filmmaking challenge. This one involving a video game called "Portal" to which he built his first ever prop for a film as well as engaged in his first ever special effects. From that moment forward Steven has only and ever wanted to be a filmmaker. Leaving his jobs in the graphic design/ pizza delivery field to find ones that would get his hands on cameras.
Steven entered his first-ever film festival in 2015. At the local "Holland Projects 3-minute film festival" to which he took home the audience choice award for third place for his short film "Apiphobia" Involving wild, gas mask-wearing gunman in a surreal post-apocalyptic desert. And then later the following year returning to the same festival to win the first place jury award, as well as second place for the audience choice award for his short film "SAD: By Lamp", Involving a lamp that narrates its own life noticing the animosity in human behaviors and searching for its true purpose in life.
In 2016 Steven happened upon a small film crew known only as White Opus run by Jesse McCloskey. To which he acted in a short written by Jesse and was later asked to be part of the White Opus Family. With this partnership, the group began the longest short of their careers "Robby". Having Steven direct and edit the production.
Steven is now the owner of a small production company he solely owns and is taking on projects left to right in hopes of someday getting to direct and write his first ever feater film and find his name amongst many shelves with jacketed blurays and DVDs.
This was by far the most challenging project I have ever taken on. No budget, a skeleton crew, and hardly any knowledge towards how to even approach a project this big. Somehow, without a shadow of a doubt, I can say mission accomplished. I called in every favor I could think of to try and find us people who would help out on set. I tried to credit accordingly in the film but honestly, we all did a little of everything on this one. We had no choice, as well as nobody committed enough to stay for more than two days without any pay. Somehow a year had passed in pursuit of trying to finish this film on time for its first-ever film festival. "The Reno Tahoe International Film Festival". The only challenge being the continuity of filming in between seasons, as well as finding locations that would let us film in them for free. Luckily, Reno is very understanding of its up and coming art cultures, and a lot of wonderful people were able to help us in finding places to shoot. However, the bones of the film were truly honed in on Reno's exterior assets it had to provide, and luckily the story called for less interior shots and more back alley, under kept kind exteriors that were terribly easy to find. I really wanted to zero in on my hometown in this film and make it a character in itself. This being my first "Big" production I thought it would be great to make it have a very nostalgic "This is where I'm from", kind of feel. Knowing that something this amazing can be accomplished with no money has truly erupted a fire in me that allows me to understand how a story is truly told, as well as how it can be executed. I believe "Robby" to set the example for local filmmaking in Reno. As well as show how something can be accomplished when you truly put your mind to it.