Talismans

Writer’s Statement
I wrote “Talismans” in four hours one late night in October 2017. I suffered from Obtain-clips-from-recalcitrant-producers-for-actor-reel-itis, so I decided to generate my own content. Little did I realize that exercise - hyper-focusing down to a character type I could marketably play tomorrow - had tapped into a part of me I had long neglected to explore, namely settling up between who I am and who I thought I would be. As a single, under-employed gay man, its hard to fathom easily bringing a child into this world, especially into a world where I am far less anything than I ever imagined I would be. But as with all parents, who have children to show the world to and pass along all they know, it's their children who reflect back who they really are. My dad thinks my grandpa would have really liked this short.