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VAFF 19

Crush The Skull

Directed by Viet Nguyen

Nov 8: Program 9 – Closing Night: Crush The Skull / USA / 2015 / Thriller / 80 mins / English / Colour / Canada Premiere

Description

On the surface, Ollie and Blair are a typical fun, young couple—comfortable enough to be constantly picking at each other’s flaws, secure enough to start making long-term plans together. They just happen to earn a dishonest living by breaking into poorly secured, upper-class homes. After falling into debt when their last job goes horribly awry, they find themselves having to pull one more last job. But the “easy target”—the B&E of a secluded vacation home in the mountains—turns out to be anything but easy when they discover they’ve inadvertently broken into the lair of a deranged serial killer. And there’s no way to break back out.

Previous Screening / Awards:

Nightfall Award – Los Angeles Film Festival 2015


Director's Bio

Viet Nguyen, an Austin native, graduated from the film school at the University of Texas and lives and works in L.A. as a television editor on shows like “Starz’s Party Down,” Fox’s “The Following,” and the current CW hit series “iZOMBIE.” Viet directed the “Veronica Mars” spin-off web series “Play It Again, Dick” and the documentary, “By the Fans: the Making of the Veronica Mars Movie.”


Credits

Producer: Jimmy Tsai, Aya Tanimura, Viet Nguyen, Chris Dinh
Writer: Viet Nguyen, Chris Dinh


Preceded By

  1. Fish Eye

    Tong Zhou / Nov 8: Program 9 – Closing Night: Crush The Skull / China / 2015 / Thriller / 15 mins
    A paranoid young maid is hired by a mysterious, neurotic man; while cleaning, she finds evidence which might be related to an unapprehended serial killer.

    Precedes: Crush The Skull


  2. Teaspoon

    Aban Bharucha Deohans / Nov 8: Program 9 – Closing Night: Crush The Skull / India / 2015 / Drama, Thriller / 20 mins
    Rajiv, Kavita and Rajiv’s father, live together in a small apartment. Kavita works from home, as she cannot leave her paralytic father-in-law alone.

    Precedes: Crush The Skull