I Knew Him Well
A disruption at the funeral of a beloved patriarch forces a family to come to terms with the memory of the man they thought they knew.
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Sean Harrison JonesDirector
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Sean Harrison JonesWriter
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Nathaniel MeekWriter
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Trey NelsonProducerLost in the Sun
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David LambertProducerLost in the Sun
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Dave QuayProducer
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Nathaniel MeekKey Cast"Little Joe"
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Sean Harrison JonesKey Cast"Mark"
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Project Type:Short
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Runtime:11 minutes
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Completion Date:April 25, 2020
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Production Budget:28,000 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:1.85:1
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
Sean Harrison Jones was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. He has lived and breathed film since he was a little boy when he first discovered and fell in love with Star Wars and Indiana Jones (which he falsely claimed was his namesake.) This inspired him to steal his mom's home video camera to make shorts starring his action figure collection. By the time he was 15, he was directing a DIY-feature on mini-DV featuring friends and teachers as the cast. He found his way to Los Angeles and attended UCLA as a theater major, but he never lost sight of his true love. He reunited with it when he wrote, directed and acted in his first fully-funded, properly made short film, Gumball. He took the hard-earned lessons from that experience and a few years later, hatched a plan with a fellow cinephile friend (the very same one that first introduced him to Bergman!) to collaborate on a short together. Thus, the very short you see on this site was born. A labor of love, as well as an experiment in further developing his voice. He hopes you enjoy it.
There are two ideas I want to convey through this film: One, that you can never fully know a person, no matter how intimate your relationship. Even a parent. Especially a parent. Human beings are too complex to summarize. There are even things within ourselves we’ve tucked away into drawers we don’t know exist. I have always wanted to explore that notion. And two, perhaps more importantly, can you learn to forgive someone you love after discovering something unforgivable about them? What would it take to accept them in all of their flawed, messy glory? I want to convey those ideas through characters that feel like real people, simple yet beautiful images that stir up a wide range of emotions and a story that recalls feelings or experiences the audience may have had themselves. After all, that’s why we love to watch movies: To be reminded we’re not alone, to share the universal experience of being human, warts and all.