Private Project

Beware of Goat

A rivalry between two rural families escalates when one family’s goat gets loose in the other’s yard.

  • Justin T. Malone
    Director
  • Justin T. Malone
    Writer
  • Justin T. Malone
    Producer
  • O'Shay Foreman
    Producer
  • Noelle Beard
    Producer
  • Lindsey Roberts
    Key Cast
    "Louise"
    The Poor & Hungry (2000)
  • Peyton Pilgrim
    Key Cast
    "Mitchell"
  • Cecelia Wingate
    Key Cast
    "Mary"
    He Could've Gone Pro (2016)
  • John Sneed
    Key Cast
    "Roger"
  • Lauren Gunn
    Key Cast
    "Millie"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Comedy, Dark Comedy
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes 48 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 17, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    20,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.85:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Tonkawa Film Festival
    Tonkawa, Oklahoma
    United States
    April 15, 2023
    World Premiere
    Winner - Best Comedy
  • Pasadena International Film Festival
    Los Angeles, California
    United States
    May 7, 2023
    West Coast Premiere
    Nominee - Best Comedy
  • Big Apple Film Festival
    New York, New York
    United States
    May 20, 2023
    East Coast Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Tennessee International Indie Film Festival
    Spring Hill, Tennessee
    United States
    Schedule TBA
    Official Selection
  • Indie Memphis Film Festival
    Memphis, Tennessee
    United States
    Schedule TBA
    Winner - IndieGrant
  • Mayavaram International Film Festival
    Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu
    India
    May 28, 2023
    Winner - Best International Short Film
Director Biography - Justin T. Malone

Justin T. Malone is a rising filmmaker with an eye for the grotesque, profane, and darkly humorous. Working in the Southern Gothic literary tradition, Justin's films focus on working class rural Southerners like the people he grew up around in West Tennessee.

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Director Statement

Two things I learned growing up in the rural American South are that there is no dignity in poverty and that there is humor in mankind’s capacity for cruelty. As an artist, I’m fascinated with exploring the way our circumstances can make us cruel.

Beware of Goat is a meditation on the way poverty, stress and tribalism can drive even the most responsible or well meaning people toward anger and violence. But above all else, it is an assertion that the best remedy for misery is laughter, even when standing atop the gallows.