Short Screenplay AFIN 178
Lives Before Your Eyes
Written by Harry Sweby
AFIN 2023 Winner
- 2023
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Australia - English
- Thriller
- Sci-fi
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Synopsis
After her soul is trapped inside a decaying corpse, a vengeful mortician has just minutes to bring a billiards-themed serial killer to justice.
Writer's Statement
A unique combination of sci-fi, murder-mystery and body-swapping comedy, "Lives Before Your Eyes" is a short thriller that poses an interesting question: What happens if the minds of a murderer and a victim get stuck inside the same rapidly-decaying body?
Writer's Biography
Harry Sweby Writer
Harry Sweby is a screenwriter, director, producer and script supervisor based in Brisbane, Australia. With experience as a Development Executive at Dicentium Films, he is currently working to bring genre-blending Aussie stories to international audiences. He is most known for producing YouTube webseries FIN VS THE INTERNET, and recent credits include Australian horror flick THE RED starring Michael Biehn.
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Lives Before Your Eyes was Winner of Best Short Screenplay at the AFIN International Film Festival 2023, a Top 100 Best Reviewed and IMDb-qualifying festival.
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