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Briar

Briar

2020Short⏱️ 5m
ShortDrama
⭐ 8.6
IMDB Rating
5 votes

Home becomes purgatory for a grieving and murderous filmmaker during a global pandemic.

Director
Pearls Daily
Writers
Pearls Daily, Alexandra Warrick
Stars
Maine Anders, Anna Bridgforth, Jonathan Burwell
Language
English
Country
United States
πŸ† 17
Wins
🎯 1
Nominations
πŸ’¬ 4
Reviews
πŸ“½οΈ View on IMDB

🎭 Top Cast

πŸ‘€
Maine Anders
as Gemma Bogart
Anna Bridgforth
Anna Bridgforth
as Dr. Vera
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Jonathan Burwell
as News Anchor
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Pearls Daily
as Briar Hughes
Abe Goldfarb
Abe Goldfarb
as Brian Hughes

🎬 Technical Specs

Color
Color
Filming Location
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Production
Pearls Daily Studios

🎯 Categories

DramaShort

⭐ Featured Review

A frightening look at the psychological horrors of isolation and being locked down.
by wheel99 β€’ 2021-09-21
10/10

"Briar is a fantastic short horror film that I just took in at the Coney Island Film Festival. It centers on the main character Briar and shows how she is, or more accurately isn't, handling her lockdown. The film opens with a montage of news and images coming through on a television that highlights the state of the world in the early days of the pandemic (bodies being wrapped by people in hazmat suits etc.). The last image is an apartment window where we see a woman looking out through her barred windows and outside gate. A perfect metaphor for the "prison" that we were all in ..."

πŸ’‘ Did You Know?

Written shot and edited entirely in the apartment of the filmmakers during the covid-19 global pandemic in early 2020.

πŸ“– Synopsis

Home becomes purgatory for a grieving and murderous filmmaker during a global pandemic.