The Face of Death

Two brothers wait for their ride out of town after a tragic event, anticipating their sinister karma.

  • Zachary Chilcote
    Director
    Heartbeat, Night Terrors
  • Zachary Chilcote
    Writer
    Heartbeat, Night Terrors
  • Keith Chen
    Writer
    Mosaic
  • Simon Jones
    Producer
    Mosaic
  • Keith Chen
    Producer
    Mosaic
  • Nathan Mills
    Key Cast
    "Bill"
    Faye: An Interlude
  • Bryan Arnold
    Key Cast
    "Sam"
    Heartbeat
  • Diana Bachowski
    Key Cast
    "Barmaid"
    Heartbeat, The Customer Comes First, Love Island: Seattle
  • Jay Jenkins
    Key Cast
    "Old Man"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Crime, Noir
  • Runtime:
    18 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    August 1, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Zachary Chilcote

Zachary is an up and coming director from Seattle, Washington. In college, he studied Cinema and Media Studies. During this time, he took up screenwriting and producing. He has written, produced, and directed three short films, and cites his influences as David Lynch, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, and Alfred Hitchcock.

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Director Statement

There are so many recognizable elements from Film Noir. Private Eyes and Femme Fatales; hand rolled cigarettes and fedoras; narration in the rain and razor sharp dialogue that just rolls off the tongue. No one film has all of these, but there's one element that links all of these films in this unique part of Cinema History. A sense of fatalism. Dread.

So when I began writing this story, knowing the ending from a true secondhand account, I knew I could count on one thing that would set our film apart: embracing the fatalism. And the rest came after that.