Wah Do Dem (What They Do)

(USA, 2009, 73 mins)

HDCam

World Premiere

Producers: Sam Fleischner, Katina Hubbard, Ben Chace, Martha Lapham, Henry Kasdon
Screenwriters: Ben Chace, Sam Fleischner
Cinematographer: Sam Fleischner
Editors: Ben Chace, Sam Fleischner
Cast: Sean Bones, Norah Jones, Kevin Bewersdorf, Carl Bradshaw

• Trailer

Max’s girlfriend Willow dumps him days before their departure on a Carribean cruise. Unable to find a friend to come with him to experience the all-you-can-eat-buffet crowd, he goes it alone. A hipster in a strange land, Max can’t quite adjust to being out of his element until his playful lark evolves into an unexpected odyssey.

Directors Ben Chace and Sam Fleichner made good use of a cruise ticket won in a raffle to set the low-budget production in motion. Filmed with minimal crew and in a fluid, observational style, Max’s trip is set on the edges of real places and events, giving the story a fresh texture and vivid immediacy whether cruising the antiseptic chromed and carpeted staterooms of the ship or jubilantly witnessing the U.S. presidential election from a ramshackle Jamaican bar. At the same time, the film subtly and smartly subverts the audience’s expectations at every turn so that the viewer’s voyage of discovery comes to mirror Max’s. Along with him, we start to learn to slow down and enjoy the unexpected sights and sounds of the journey.

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