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One Man's Land

1918, Amiens, FRANCE. William, a young Canadian soldier get injured on the battlefield and find himself stuck in a shell hole. For 48h he will have to find a way to escape and survive the horrors of No Man’s Land…

  • Valentin Moulias
    Director
  • Valentin Moulias
    Writer
  • Jacob Crawford
    Producer
  • Bailey Wood
    Producer
  • Jordan Vazquez
    Producer
  • Dylan Schmid
    Key Cast
    "William"
    1922, Snowpiercer
  • Alessandro Pekin
    Key Cast
    "Heinrich"
  • Dave Beamish
    Key Cast
    "Walter"
  • Amir Zeino
    Key Cast
    "Hans"
  • Alex Pfegler
    Key Cast
    "Bruno"
  • Jay Kamal
    Cinematographer
  • Oswaldo Lopez Dantes
    Editor
  • Sean William
    Composer
  • Jessica Kalan
    Costume Designer
    Bones of Crows
  • Gabrielle D'Errico
    Production Designer
  • Chris Crawford
    Property Master
  • Heather Morlidge
    Hair and Make Up
    Buckethead
  • Thierry Diab
    Sound Design
  • Teo Van Raalte
    Sound Mixing
  • Janene Carleton
    Stunt
    Avengers: Endgame
  • Carlos Paez Buitrago
    Stunt
    Yellowjackets
  • Martin Testa
    SPFX
    The Mother
  • A.J. Garces
    VFX
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    War, Period, Drama
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes 59 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 24, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    15,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English, German
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2:0
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Valentin Moulias

Born in 1995 in Paris, France and raised in Barcelona, Spain. Valentin manifested very early on an interest for drama and filmmaking. Radio host, actor, writer, filmmaker, plastic artist, musician,...he tried a variety of mediums and art but filmmaking was the one sticking.

After 4 years in the film school ESCAC (Escola Superior de Cine i Audiovisual de Catalunya) in Barcelona and co-directing with his fellow schoolmates the feature film La Filla D'Algú (2018) he decided to move to Canada to try his luck in the American Industry as an Assistant Director and a Prop Person.

3 years later he was back behind the camera with One Man’s Land, a short film about the infamous 1918 Battle of Amiens and is currently working on a dance project about Tango...

History nerd, Valentin specialized in period films so he can mix his passion for historical research with his love of drama...

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Director Statement

My love for film is tightly related to my love of history, rooted in the countless hours watching old Westerns, Peplums, Noir or simply some very old movies in our cottage in Southern France. Showing what once was, how fascinating, how poetic. No only to watch as an audience but also to make, to learn about, to recreate…

Growing up in France, I was surrounded by traces of my past. You can’t walk in the street of Paris without passing by a plaque telling you who lived there, the bullets impacts from WWII on a wall of a monument dedicated to a great man or women who died long before I was born and accomplished tremendous things.

WWI was a generational trauma in France. Every village, no matter how small they are, have a memorial to their deads with an endless list of names. It always struck me how many families lost the father, the brother and the uncle in the span of 4 years, and for very little gain as the ones who came home came back demolished…

WWI is the conflict who made us open our eyes to the horror of war and to the terrifying scale of the Industrial World: Millions of shells, millions of men and millions of dead, far from the ideals of courage, sportsmanship and nobility of the past. I also wanted to show the loneliness and feeling of abandonment that those soldiers have so often felt.

One Man’s Land has been an incredible challenge for me: self-financed my WWI epic took me 4 years to complete because my team and I insisted to carefully check every detail to make sure they would delivered the appropriate emotion. I’m extremely proud of this titanic work that explores violence, thrill, depression and fear and I can only hope it went beyond your expectations…

Valentin Moulias