Retrograde
He wishes he never ran away from home.
ABOUT
Chained to his basement bed, a young boy finds comfort only in the sounds of radio his parents turn on from time to time. After his mother’s cold attempts to feed him go wrong, leaving him with a bruised cheek, he decides that he’s had enough and proceeds to bust out of his twisted house arrest. He steps out into an unpredictable night, quickly realizing that he was never ready to be on his own.
YEAR 2020
RUN TIME 11:38 Min
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CAST & CREW CREDITS
DIRECTOR Sam Antezana
PRODUCER Imani Edwards
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Retji Dakum
SOUND RECORDIST/ SOUND DESIGNER Yuntao Liu
GAFFER Liz Printy
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Logan Hamrick
SCRIPT SUPERVISOR Xuecong Zhao
COLOR CORRECTION Avery Griffin
PRACTICAL EFFECTS ARTIST Doug Sakmann
SCORE COMPOSER Ashna Pathan
PRINCIPAL CAST Sam Bredland | Amy Gamper | Dennis Marburger | Jesse Marciniak
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
If I were to translate my childhood to the screen, it wouldn’t come out like Retrograde, but the film’s reflections on parental control and overprotectiveness connect with widespread youth experiences.
My film embodies two things that I find most valuable in cinema: subverting audience expectations and highlighting undervalued or overlooked perspectives, such as those of children. The horror genre serves this mission because it provides incredible freedom of storytelling and breaks down social barriers to expressing trauma.
DIRECTOR BIO
Samuel Antezana is a writer and filmmaker in his final year in the MFA in filmmaking program at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). His screenplays deliver the crazy things he wants to see on screen, and he is a huge advocate for all things horror. He holds a BA in journalism from the University of Maryland and, during his spare time, writes movie reviews for the independent pop culture zine MovieJawn and the diversity-focused online publication Incluvie.
FILM AND PRODUCTION STILLS
AWARDS
FULL FILM
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Samuel Antezana is a writer and filmmaker in his final year in the MFA in filmmaking program at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). His screenplays deliver the crazy things he wants to see on screen, and he is a huge advocate for all things horror. He holds a BA in journalism from the University of Maryland and, during his spare time, writes movie reviews for the independent pop culture zine MovieJawn and the diversity-focused online publication Incluvie.
(Update provided in May 2020)