Salvation

Poor Fabrice suffers from a mediocre life, chronic constipation and his wife is leaving him. Fabrice is crying for someone to help him. But when Melinda arrives, is she there to save his soul, or his body?

  • Christopher Jay Mack
    Director
    Hope is French, Diva, Vampire Vermont, Paris Vampires
  • Christopher Jay Mack
    Writer
  • Marine Tuja
    Key Cast
    "Melinda"
  • Patrick CHAYRIGUÈS
    Key Cast
    "Fabrice"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Sauvez Moi
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Comedy, Dark Comedy, Black Humor, Comic Horror, French
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 54 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 1, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Language:
    French
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Christopher Jay Mack

Chris Mack directs and writes plays and films in Paris, where he resides. Directing credits include Diva, Hope is French, The Race of the Ark Tattoo, Paris Doll, Seventy Scenes of Halloween, and The Varian Fry Project.

Chris is also an acting coach. He teaches/has taught acting for stage and screen for Blanche Salant, EICAR, Les Ateliers du Sudden, Bilingual Acting Workshop, New York Film Academy Paris, and Paris Meisner Studio, as well as for episodes of some TV series and films.

Chris is also a Paris-based voiceover artist. He does voiceovers for numerous documentaries, commercials and films.

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Director Statement

Both comedy and drama, Sauvez-moi (English title: Salvation) explores loneliness and hope through a humorous lens of one man's contemplation of suicide, and his subsequent choice. What motivated me to make this film is the desire to make people look at rejection and loneliness, and be able to laugh at the absurdity of what we put ourselves through. Suicide is not funny. But everyone has moments of suffering, where they look for an answer, where they wait to be transformed, to be saved. Of course, true salvation can't come from anyone or anywhere else. But this absolute yearning to be loved, to be connected to something greater, is a very human impulse. Often it has been explored through religion and spirituality, but what about the other side of things? What about connecting to a greater community through the the body? No, I don't mean sex, watch the film and find out what I mean! :)

Mostly, my motivation was to make people laugh and to entertain. Hope you enjoy the film!