Experiencing Interruptions?

The Albacore Club

A regular guy answers an on-line ad for an unspecified service in the middle of the night leading him deeper and deeper into a nightmare. The two enigmatic strangers he meets do nothing to ease his mind.

  • Ned Daly
    Director
    Wet (2023),Four Questions (2022), The Closer You Look (2019), Abang Aku (2017), Why We Went to the Moon (2015), Pastiche Vol1 No.1 (2014)
  • Ned Daly
    Writer
  • Ned Daly
    Producer
  • Veda Paul Constantino
    Key Cast
    Four Questions (2022), Abang Aku (2017)
  • Andy Schultz
    Key Cast
  • m francis marcom
    Key Cast
  • Emma Campbell
    Music
    Wet (2023),Four Questions (2022), The Closer You Look (2019), Abang Aku (2017)
  • Tim Carey
    Sound
    Wet (2023),Four Questions (2022), The Closer You Look (2019), Abang Aku (2017)
  • Atsushi Tanimura
    Sound
    Wet (2023),Four Questions (2022), The Closer You Look (2019), Abang Aku (2017)
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 22 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 15, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Orlando International Film Festival
    Orlando, FL
    United States
    May 15, 2024
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Sykehouse Film Festival
    Sykehouse
    United Kingdom
    June 29, 2024
    UK Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Screaming Ostrich International Film Festival
    Arlington, MA
    United States
    October 9, 2024
    New England Premiere
    Best Film - Guerilla Filmmaking
  • ClickFest
    Fulton, MO
    United States
    August 17, 2024
    Midwest Premiere
  • Pittsburgh Miving Picture Festival:Thriller Picture Show
    Pittsburgh, PA
    United States
    Best Short - Neo Noir
Director Biography - Ned Daly

Boston-born filmmaker Ned Daly has made found footage works, a mockumentary, an architectural study and several semi-abstract films. His directing career only began after retiring as a city planner and real estate consultant. Ned is a member of the Boston chapter of the National Writers Union (AFL-CIO)

He was trained as a stage actor in Massachusetts. As a film/television actor he has worked with directors Alan Arkush, Miklos Gyulai and more recently with Morten Tyldum and Greta Gerwig. His earlier films, Pastiche Vol 1 No1 (2014), Why We Went to the Moon (2016), Abang Aku (2018), The Closer You Look (2020), Four Questions (2022) and WET (2023) have played to appreciative audiences at scores of film festivals worldwide.

In 2016 he was awarded Third Prize at the 2016 Bed-Stuy Popup! Cinema Festival for Why We Went to the Moon. In 2018 he was named Best Newcomer at the Borobudur International Film Festival in Indonesia (Abang Aku). In 2021 he won the award for Best Cinematography at the French International Film Festival (The Closer You Look). His most recent film, WET, has screened at festivals in ten countries and won Best Super-short Experimental Film at the 2023 AltFF Festival in Toronto.

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Director Statement

Several years ago, I was driving for Lyft and Uber part-time. As such, I was always scanning Craigslist Gigs for additional side hustles. I came across several ads that made me think, “What could go wrong?” I took one of these ideas and turned it into a short story for the 13th Annual A. J. Liebling Invitational Short Fiction Conference. I turned the story into a screenplay and then into this film. The challenges of filming on location and at night, even with a small cast and crew, were more than I had imagined. My volunteer cast and crew made it possible to pull off this micro-budget short. My thanks to all of them.