Micro Short AFIN 111

Side Effect

Name: Side Effect
Genre: Micro Short

Directed by Andrea Shreeman, Renny Grames

AFIN 2021 Nominee

2021
10m
USA
English
Psychological Drama
Drama
Thriller

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Nominee

Best Short Film

Renny Grames, Andrea Shreeman

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Credits

Written by

Marty Lang

Produced by

Starring

Music & Sound

Visual Effects

Boston McConnaughey

Synopsis

2021 Awards: WINNER Best Director, Best Actress, Best VFX at Big Sur Film Festival, WINNER Outstanding Achievement for a Thriller Short at IndieX, WINNER Best Short at Sydney International Film Festival, Nominated BEST EMERGING FEMALE FILMMAKER.

Dr. Carrie Holmes has a thriving psychiatry practice, with a waiting list of top paying clients and a corner office in a much sought after medical high-rise. You can tell she’s doing well from her Prada’s and her Porsche. But something’s got Dr. Carrie off of her game. It all comes to a head one busy afternoon when, in the middle of her sessions, she experiences confusion, headaches, and hallucinations. After years of unchecked drug pushing, Dr. Carrie comes face to face with her own guilty conscience amid a swirl of mysteriously induced painful side effects from the wonder drug she’s been prescribing, Panacetlyne.

Director's Statement

Andrea Shreeman, filmmaker portrait provided to AFIN.

A greedy psychiatrist is over-prescribing the wonder drug Panacetlyne, when she mysteriously begins exhibiting the drug’s side effects herself.

Andrea Shreeman Director

What makes this one special

4 awards at other festivalsBig Sur Film Festival · Indie X · Rocky Mountain International Film Festival and 1 more
Programmed at 10 other festivalsAcross 2 countries
Nominated for Best Short Film

Also selected at

4 awards, 1 finalist placing, 5 official selections across 10 other festivals

WinnerBig Sur Film FestivalWINNER Best Director, Best Actress, Best VFX · Big Sur, California, United States · 2021
WinnerIndie XWINNER Outstanding Achievement for a Thriller Short · Hollywood, California, United States · 2021
WinnerRocky Mountain International Film FestivalWINNER Best Horror Short · Silverthorne, Colorado, United States · 2021
WinnerSydney International Film FestivalWINNER Best Short · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 2021
FinalistIndie Short FestSEMI FINALIST Best Short Film · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2021
SelectionCinelounge Presents 2021IN COMPETITION Best Narrative Short · Hollywood, California, United States · 2021
SelectionFilmchillaTwin Oaks, California, United States · 2021
SelectionKansas City Film Fest InternationalKansas City, Missouri, United States · 2021
SelectionTopanga Film FestivalTopanga, California, United States · 2021
SelectionZ-SHORTS International Film FestivalSanta Barbara, California, United States · 2021

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Directors' Biography

Andrea Shreeman, filmmaker portrait provided to AFIN. Andrea Shreeman Renny Grames Directors

Andrea Shreeman and Renny Grames

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Side Effect was an official Nominee for Best Short Film at the AFIN International Film Festival 2021, a Top 100 Best Reviewed and IMDb-qualifying festival.

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