All Sales Final

Samuel A. Dillon is a man with no hope or reason to live. When he finds an Elimination Agency ad in the newspaper, he decides to end it all by ordering his own assassination. A turn of events causes him to change his mind but all sales are final. He is now faced with the challenge of either evading or defeating his assassin. What will be his fate?
The film is shot entirely on an Iphone4 and features the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge and the port town of Sausalito, CA.

  • Ingrid Serban
    Director
  • Ingrid Serban
    Writer
  • Forest Sun
    Producer
  • Nathan B. Johnson
    Key Cast
  • Alisa Rose
    Key Cast
  • Lucy Shalhoup
    Key Cast
  • Forest Sun
    Key Cast
  • Dawn Shalhoup
    Key Cast
  • Finn Shalhoup
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    July 30, 2014
  • Production Budget:
    30 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Iphone 4
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Asheville Cinema Festival
    Asheville, NC
    November 8, 2014
  • Chennai International Short Film Festival
    Chennai, India
    February 8, 2015
  • Tiburon International Film Festival
    Tiburon, CA
    April 13, 2015
  • Albuquerque Film and Music Experience Festival
    Albuquerque, NM
    June 7, 2015
    Best Short Film on a Mobile Device
  • Ozark Shorts
    Los Angeles, CA
    United States
  • Ahmednagar International Short Film Festival
    Ahmednagar
    India
Director Biography - Ingrid Serban

Ingrid Serban was born in Transylvania, Romania and spent the first part of her life studying piano and voice at the Sigismund Toduta Lycee in Cluj-Napoca. When she moved to the US, she continued her music studies alongside acting and writing.
“All Sales Final” is her film debut as writer, director, photographer and composer. The Debussy-like piano score is improvised and recorded live at Vineyard Studios in Kentfield, CA.
Ingrid lives in Mill Valley, CA with her husband, musician Forest Sun.

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Director Statement

Growing up in a small government-issue apartment in Communist Romania, I often escaped that grey reality by improvising scores on my piano for make-believe stories.
I am very pleased to bring that childhood play into reality with my first film,” All Sales Final,” a silent, black & white short about finding hope in unexpected places. Hope and love might be considered trivial to some but to me, are vital in the face of death and despair.
I am interested in the rhythm of life, in the beauty of things around me, and the strengths and weaknesses of our human condition. For me, storytelling is holding the mirror up to nature and coloring that image with my own perceptions.