Lockdown | movie | 2019 | Official Featurette - video Dailymotion

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00:05 Hi, my name is Logan.

00:06 And I'm Celine.

00:07 We're the co-writers and directors

00:09 of our short film, Lockdown, an official selection

00:11 of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

00:15 We saw this photo by Alex Soth in the New York Times

00:18 called On Lockdown.

00:20 And we were really taken by it.

00:22 We didn't want to tell a story explicitly about gun violence.

00:26 We saw the context of a lockdown drill

00:29 as a way to explore a very, very different narrative.

00:33 Logan and I have never been big on scripts.

00:35 We really like the idea of our actors finding the scene

00:39 rather than memorizing word for word.

00:41 And so we use that same tactic here.

00:43 When we cast over 100 different extras, a lot of the students

00:47 actually go to that school.

00:48 And then some adult actors to play the teachers and staff

00:51 because we really wanted to fill out the whole school

00:54 and make it feel like a living and breathing environment.

00:58 This is Logan and my sixth film as a co-writer/director team.

01:02 I'm actually from Pittsburgh.

01:03 So the out-of-town crew stayed at my parents' house.

01:06 And my aunt and uncle live really close to the school.

01:09 So we parked the van there overnight.

01:11 Shot it over only two days.

01:13 It was a real, real rush.

01:15 A lot of credit to our EPs and Compulsory

01:18 for really trusting us.

01:20 Loi, Meyer, DP, and Cara Durette.

01:23 Without them, we really couldn't have pulled it off.

01:25 This short is about taking control and taking risks,

01:29 but also what it is to be a middle schooler in 2018

01:34 and to be falling in love with your best friend.

01:37 We feel so lucky that people are continuing

01:41 to see something in our work.

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