A mentally-afflicted young man named Benny is accused of murdering Professor Chavez, his longtime benefactor. Chavez’ lawyer, Dan Ortega, is called in to figure out what really happened. The answer lies in Benny’s mad obsession with the professor’s old typewriter, on which he types relentlessly, day and night.
The director, Paolo Dy for On the Lot, a reality filmmaking show.
From Mark Burnett, Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Television, ON THE LOT affords aspiring filmmakers the opportunity of a lifetime: a $1-million DreamWorks development deal. Over the season, the 16 filmmakers will produce short films in every genre every week and the viewers will vote on who gets eliminated.
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This reminds me of an ad I saw a couple of years back. There was this little boy, who, when instructed to draw pictures on a piece of paper, merely blackened with entire thing. And then he went on to blacken another paper, and then another, and then another. Wherever, be it at home or in school, he was, he’d be found just blackening paper after paper. His parents were worried that there might be something wrong with him so they sent their son to a facility to be evaluated. The doctors could not figure out why he kept coloring the paper black. Finally, after a long time, the little boy finished. And then the camera zooms out to reveal that he had actually tiled a picture of a whale. I think the ad was trying to promote creative thinking or the idea that not all unusual children can be misconstrued as slow learners/stupid.
