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Six students must complete their graduation from a utopian training facility by answering a devastating moral question.
"academy" by Ian Salazar
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27. 12. 32. 9. 66. 4. These are numbers. These are names. Six students prepare for graduation from a new kind of training facility. All that remains is one final lesson.
"academy" Credits:
Producing/Directing
Executive Producer: Kathleen Kenny, Nat McElvy, Ian Salazar
Co-executive producer: Travis Cramer
Producer: Austin Gay
Associate Producer: Chloe Knight, Conner Swann
Co-Producer: The Matts Productions
Director: Ian Salazar
Story By: Ian Salazar, Kathleen Kenny, Nat McElvy
Written By: Ian Salazar
Script Supervisor: Kelly McCart
UPM: Chris Cranston
1st AD: Kelsie Adams
2nd AD: Madison Quinton
Camera
DP: Christian Klein
1st AC: Joe McNairy
2nd AC: Jamal Reeves
Camera Operator: Ryan Wood
Still Photographer: Dustin Tan, Nika Burnett
Electric
Gaffer: Buddy Thomas
Best Boy Electric: Jay Harmon
Grip
Key Grip: Christopher Moscoso
Best Boy/Girl Grip: Myles Channing Thompson
Art
Production Designer: Nick Golowko
Art Director: Justin Wallick
Set Decorator: Karina Ardley
Set Dresser: Christian Duro
Makeup
Hair/Makeup: Chelsea Delfino
HMU Assistant: Amanda Thorsson
Stylist: Marly Hall
Sound
Composer: Jason Martin Castillo
Sound Mixer: Cullen Herron
Sound Design: Ryan Pawlak
Re-Recording Mixer: Alexander Verbitskiy
Post
Editor: Brennan Gilpatrick
Colorist: Dante Pasquinelli
Poster Designer: Xan Black
Stunt
Fight Choreographer: Patrick Koocheradis
Cast
Nash: Nat McElvy
Drew: Kathleen Kenny
Damion: Jay Walker
Brenna: Katherine Hughes
Charlotte: Nika Burnett
Simon: Ben Winchell
Student X: Jake Schwartz
Guard: Sean Paul Ross
Voice: Ian Salazar
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@kathleenkenny990 2 года назад

Really appreciate you guys checking out our short film Academy! Can't wait to hear what you guys think!

@gjnbouwmeester5860 2 года назад

I knew it! The gorgeous redhead survives🙂

@billyandrew 2 года назад

Once the option was given it was obvious who would rebel and live. The rest of the class were overly ambitious or vacuous. Nice to see it confirmed, however.

@ARWest-bp4yb 2 года назад

These near future kinds of stories are the most frightening. So well done, thank you to everyone involved! 👍👍

@thephantomraspberryblower2675 2 года назад

Interesting take on the good bad theme. Tightly written and well execution. Thought's on making a follow up? Where did she go? What is life like in the colony?

@umajahnavi3482 2 года назад

I am sorry but isn't the one in bag supposed to live? Is that person not a decoy?

@jipsigal 2 года назад

One of the few DUST shorts I find satisfying in that there was an actual ‘end’ of sorts… like a well-acted ‘fable’ with a twist of a ‘moral’ at the close… unsettling, for sure. Bravo!

@timmotel5804 2 года назад

Yes. An ending is good too

@bjb7587 2 года назад

I like a happy ending.

@iansalazar3354 2 года назад

glad you liked it

@carlosidelone8064 2 года назад

@@bjb7587 I doubt, that you can even get that at "Disney" these days.

@stevenscott2136 2 года назад

If there's one thing I've learned in decades of sci-fi, it's that when you're presented with a perverse choice in a dystopia or captivity situation, the answer is ALWAYS to think outside the box. In this case, everybody sits down and says "No. If you want this guy dead -- you take the responsibility for it. We're not playing your sick little games." Thus proving you're precisely the sort of civilized, team-player people who will make a colony work.

@blaiseneyroud7222 2 года назад

There is a second option. Everyone kneel down and say we all go.

@kazimirmcfoster5631 Год назад

@@blaiseneyroud7222 yes in a perfect world maybe but people are self-centered and selfish among other things.

@Baekstrom 2 года назад

I'll fall in with the choir: Nice to have a story that has an actual ending and a point for a change. More of that, please!

@jamess7263 2 года назад

Not sure what the point is unless it is to put your own life on the line for your beliefs? Be willing to sacrifice for others? We still don't know WHAT, if anything the hooded one did "bad." No one questioned that - at all. Sounds like a AI version of morality though, If you don't do is THIS way, you are bad and deserve to die.

@dustintan3817 2 года назад

The archival footage reminded me of Bioshock. The gradual decline in our education system makes a future like this feel not so distant. Nicely done.

@peterruiz6117 2 года назад

This probably what it would take to straighten things out....I keep seeing videos of college students being asked rediculously simple questions, and the answers tell me that college proffesors are just handing out crack....Nothing more.

@dustintan3817 2 года назад

@@peterruiz6117 now mushrooms on the other hand, I wouldn’t mind that

@butchs.4239 2 года назад

Pretty strong Fallout vibe to it as well, I could certainly see the whole experiment as something Vault-Tec would do.

@aramisortsbottcher8201 2 года назад

@@peterruiz6117 So in this videos, you think they show all people they asked? Or just those who failed? It is easy to only see the 1% that fails, also the makers of these videos probably want to show you only this. A video with mostly correct answers would be quite boring, eh?

@jamesstevens2362 2 года назад

@@butchs.4239 I was thinking how much their clothes looked like vault uniforms, and that this academy is part of the vault selection. A prequel.

@johnsalazar756 2 года назад

Congrats to the cast, crew and film makers. Well done. look forward to seeing more like this short film.

@Gordyson 2 года назад

I died when she got handed the toast after she won. All I could think was "A toast to the winner!"

@theewill1483 Год назад

my thought... "now you're toast".... true leadership is a very tough job!!

@Devin3Anthologie Год назад

She just took it without even missing a beat. Toast is her life now.

@sydecarnutz972 2 года назад

"Graduation Toast" should be a thing! MUCH more meaningful than participation trophies!

@Intrepid_Crusader1096 2 года назад

That would be good and its part of a balanced breakfast. Participation toast.

@knock3x 2 года назад

This is most definitely one of the most thought provoking videos on your channel, if not THE most. I'm at a loss for words, aside from congrats on a great short.

@iansalazar3354 2 года назад

thank you so much!

@hillaryclinton1232 2 года назад

Yes you are almost correct, however go back theough DUST catalogue and there are others the , Literally made me weep. I am 73 Years old, so you may not weep, however you will be moved.

@iansalazar3354 2 года назад

Hey everyone! We're super excited for you to watch academy. If you have any questions for the cast or crew, fire away 🔥

@RJKhey 2 года назад

Enjoyed this - just so you know, this film wasn't searchable in RU-vid (even with the exact name) and nor was it visible in the standard list of Dust films. It only showed up for me in the Playlist "Every Sci-Fi Short Film". Hopefully Dust can re-release it so it gets a fair viewing!!!

@emperorofpluto 2 года назад

What was the book she was reading?

@iansalazar3354 2 года назад

@@emperorofpluto it was a bible (academy standard version)

@iansalazar3354 2 года назад

@@RJKhey we officially launched the video today so it should be public! Thanks for letting us know

@itoao 2 года назад

The Speaker not appearing to be centered in the Triangle. Was that done on purpose?

@arianahoshino1936 2 года назад

So thought provoking and masterfully executed!!! Love this film

@NightBazaar 2 года назад

I see what you said there. LOL!

@nobody7817 2 года назад

From the moment the parameters were given, I sort of figured how it would play out. That was pretty awesome though. HERE's a thought... take a few of these shorts, and create "interfaces" for them so that they play out like one longer short... or maybe even like a full featured film... That would be crazy awesome.

@jkobain 2 года назад

Welcome to the 1-hour / 2-hours long themed streams here on DUST… ;D

@Adui13 2 года назад

The acting was top notch, the plot was interesting, the execution of the story had me on the edge of my seat! VERY well done!

@sleepadventures Год назад

omg... this is by far the best of the 50-100 dust episodes i have seen. And it is the only one i will really remember. Powerful. BRILLIANT. thanks.

@indiefilmflow8349 2 года назад

Damn, unexpected! This director should make a feature!

@michaelkottler 2 года назад

An instant classic, Academy is "top of the class" in creativity, innovation & wisdom, using elements from several sources to craft an existential masterpiece (set in a familiar post-apocalyptic/sci-fi world eg the Fallout games) that's deeply archetypal, forcing an intimate examination of our deepest sense of what it is to be "good". Bravo, Ian Salazar, cast & crew (+ "Toast" as mortarboard).

@Hyakman5408 2 года назад

I enjoyed this film very much. I guessed, near the end, that there would actually be only one survivor out of the group. Whether or not it was intended, this film is an unsettling comment on current social trends in the US.

@AugustusSeeley 2 года назад

If this was a vision of what the near future holds... Then I'm glad to be a relic from the past!

@sysfx 2 года назад

Excellent showcase of a generic (false) dychotomy in action, ultimately benefiting a discretionary extreme.

@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1 2 года назад

I really find the lack of curiosity of these graduates disturbing. There is no attempt to inquire about the nature of said "bad" thing.

@ralphbrown9885 2 года назад

Exactly. Lost me on that. The rest was predictable.

@quitlife9279 2 года назад

I think it was actually pretty clear that they weren't exposed to any critical thinking at all through their monotone "training" and aren't capable of much reasoning ability at all, in fact, they chose the student with the worst logic to carry on society. What i find most disturbing is that actual viewers of this mediocre film fail to see that this is a dystopian film, instead thinking this is perfectly reasonable and the outcome to be good.

@traviscramer 2 года назад

What a shame that guy never got his swimming pool

@billyandrew 2 года назад

They could have drowned him instead of shooting him. 😂

@waardlafrance110 2 года назад

The Apprentice show has changed a lot.

@bjb7587 2 года назад

Well done. Simple setup. Worthy lesson. Yet another example of the maxim that good writing is more important than histrionics and special effects.

@mikemichaelmiller4229 2 года назад

The ACADEMY?? more like the PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM!! Showed this to my uncle with the South Park poster and he wept in my arms, first time ive looked a man in the eyes in 7 years. Thanks academy!

@frocurl 2 года назад

Huh?

@matthewjury4385 2 года назад

@billmurray7473 2 года назад

Perfect timing. School starts today.

@emotionalsupportteamproduc6674 2 года назад

This movie is crazy good, like the producing and acting is next level, whoever that redhead is, she's a star. Huge shout out to the filmmaking team, but that redhead has something special, I don't know what it is, but I love her!

@haydarbarazi4698 2 года назад

High sacrifice comes from very noble and humble soul it is unconditional

@0neIntangible 2 года назад

Overall a good short film... Thank you. Some of the spoken dialogue was hard to hear in a few spots, and I had to rewind a few seconds and replay those parts with closed captions turned on to read it, (ie: "...one FINAL LESSON"...), and in a couple of other spots after that. Perhaps due to an echoing effect in the stage.

@danielolson437 2 года назад

Paused 8 minutes in. Observation: Not that these people appear to have the maturity to reason this out... but if they are going to be leaders they should demand to know why only 6 can go. You don't let your teachers run the rest of your life. Take charge.

@Piaseczno1 2 года назад

Right. I'm happy for people who produced this, I guess, but I don't see any authenticity whatsoever. This topic itself is about as stale as last week's muffins, and I'm wondering what shock value there is which some people are ooing over here. Apparently, the people watching these Dust shorts don't ever read or visit their libraries. Pity really.

@abqmalenurse 2 года назад

This is probably the best short I have seen on this channel. Very indicative of where we are as a society right this minute.

@tsahiasher 2 года назад

This is great example of how minimal set decoration makes a great movie.

@pauls5745 2 года назад

I really enjoyed this! it wasn't a predictable ending at all! well done

@trmon8890 2 года назад

It appears our reality has a broken AI cause there appears to be a lot of bad in our world. Excellent portrait of a paradox

@mikeb6433 2 года назад

Twilight Zone/Outer Limits feel! :) Great job everyone!

@TheRealNappyG 2 года назад

Really powerful! Great ending. Bravo to the whole cast, crew, writers, & Director. Could be on the original Twilight Zone. Super pro & very thought-provoking.

@YoungGandalf2325 2 года назад

That toast looked good. Totally worth it.

@lego4virgo 2 года назад

Wow. I did..not expect that ending. We need a sequel to this one. Another group--perhaps they choose to overpower the guard and save the condemned or something like that.

@committedenergy Год назад

Excellent new talent ... A glimpse of what to come paired with experience... raw. Truth

@droneflyer5065 2 года назад

Thrilled I found Dust. Apparently, the best place to find true creative writing. Thank you for the great sci fi short films.

@victorblakey4260 2 года назад

This should be the start of a bigger movie. I want to know what happens next. Excellent story.

@edmundrothfus3697 2 года назад

No matter if the people are good or bad, the man will be bad. Anarchist message? Love it

@turkeybait7605 Год назад

Needs full length, deserves it.

@rich6419 2 года назад

Up there with the best of the Twilight Zone, with the toast an even more surreal touch. Great stuff, exposing the corruption always inherent in utopian projects.

@renekingfisher9065 2 года назад

Wow!! This was good!! She was giving up her life for someone she didnt even know, and she wound up being the only one alive!!

@JayAtHome 2 года назад

Thanks for watching! 🙏🏾🙌🏾

@matthewdenckla6567 2 года назад

I LOVE the low-tech, high concept execution. I LOVE the toaster as timer! Wow! Thanks!

@cappsie1 2 года назад

The toast was a nice touch.

@squ1dTr1cksandclouds Год назад

Wow! Talk about it powerful video this was awesome! Thank you and make more! This story looks like it just began!

@tommymorton4939 2 года назад

The right and good is a function of the shooting speed. Thank you, Mr. Gatling, Sir Hiram, Comrade Kalashnikov...

@PossMcLeod Год назад

Mind. Blown.

@Wasted_Hours 2 года назад

This is DOPE!

@bossdog1480 2 года назад

There are moral judgements and there are practicalities. Sometimes they are one and the same, sometimes not.

@louissivo9660 2 года назад

What a wonderful small film. I loved what talented folks can do in a small space (physical, budgetary, ...) This would make a heck of an opener to leading into a larger story. But even on its own, loved it!

@arcticknight1294 2 года назад

Although for some reason it was quite easy to see where this was going, I enjoyed this short very much. Great acting and the setting was nice!

@babe2k510 2 года назад

Awesome short! Love the tension, really makes you think what would you do holding the life of a stranger?

@SimonGoldberger Год назад

What a great film, thank you.

@andrewvarcoe4741 2 года назад

Wow, this was a good one. Love the setup fairly basic, low key yet sets the mood and feeling well. The characters were interesting, the situation they faced is an interesting moral dilemma, they were given a choice to end a person's life because they were told that person was bad, when really there was no information or knowledge of what the person had done, or seeing their face either. Interesting situation there, I find it hard to make a choice myself, even knowing the end result. I think this test is to see which ones have a mind of their own, who is a follower and who is a leader? I would be interested to find out what the writer of this was intending. This is like when you read a story, imagine characteristics and looks in head, then see the authors drawings or pictures of the story and they are different from what your thinking.

@TheMariusDarkwolf 2 года назад

I saw it more as a who is willing to sacrafice themselves for others, and who is more afraid of doing the right thing. Not who is a leader/follower, but who is willing to die for someone else, even die for someone that they were told had done wrong. What I find interesting, is it wasn't the religious person, it was the one who appeared to be a "bad girl" at the start, with candy and ciggerettes, that in the end did the right thing.

@JakeSchwartz 2 года назад

Woo! So glad this is finally out!

@Mahbu 2 года назад

Okay, so I get most of it. The toast, however, eludes me.

@eddiepitts 2 года назад

This was wonderful! It reminded me of they way some of the stories were on the old twilight zone.

@commonsense2680 Год назад

Very interesting and thought provoking.

@alicefreist318 Год назад

Awesome!

@yosemitedan7457 2 года назад

Sacrifices are what defines us. Whether those sacrifices are the ones we make or the ones we force on others.

@dnisey64 2 года назад

I need more. To see the graduates outside maybe. The mental trauma would be... WOW!!!

@R.F.9847 Год назад

Yes, what kind of world does this academy exist in? What is actual life like in a colony?

@judithsixkiller5586 Год назад

This is razor sharp. Because I don't know if I could manage to pass that test for a stranger.

@thezuguprojectANTHONYALBANESE Год назад

Excellent!

@peterruiz6117 2 года назад

Very very aawsuum video. From the start of the last test I knew what I would do, but the end was stunning....But to put extreme importance on self sacrafice, and mercy.. That was very unique.

@stephanyparsons2477 2 года назад

The toast is burnt and crumbling,your hand is shaking,but it's your reward, you've earned it.

@H1zoneTv 2 года назад

solid ending!

@Yaegosh 2 года назад

Nice touch with the toast in the end

@joustingdude 2 года назад

Excellent! From start to finish. Oustanding work all around.

@SynthoidSounds 2 года назад

This could have made an excellent episode for the original Twilight Zone series.

@desjardinspeter1982 2 года назад

always eat toast when you feel like puking... lol nice touch

@HyperactiveNeuron Год назад

Now that's how short stories are done. No explanation of how we got here and no real resolution. Dive right in and catch a glimpse... Just enough to set the imagination on fire. Love it.

@selenepickins4874 2 года назад

I'm guessing they had all their curiosity "educated" out of them. As a young adult I remember questioning everything. What bad thing had this person done? Who is this person? How did s/he come to be accused? And more but like ours, evidently their justice is not just. The Lady Justice will be very unhappy we've represented her in this way. I suggest we put a stop to it lest we end up where these students are.

@tablescissors Год назад

Well. We are doing this now. Most people only parrot and are told to hate the questioners as "the enemy".

@selenepickins4874 Год назад

@@tablescissors I fear & am sad to say I believe you're right. But I'm 62 so hating those who ask hard questions has been going on a really long time & is, in fact, one of the major reasons I left the religious faith that I was brought up in!😔

@sirrichard87 2 года назад

There's an element of sacrifice in love. Well done!

@emiliebova Год назад

Very creative. The Tiger or the Lady type story.

@JohnTLyon 2 года назад

In the name of the father, son, and the HOLY TOAST. Sounds like Florida!

@AceAngelTTV 2 года назад

SOCIETY!!!

@chrisgallagher85 2 года назад

Excellent.

@pandaninjanation1770 2 года назад

There is still love in the world cause of people like her

@foxfiretales9273 2 года назад

Daaaaaaaamn.

@bob_frazier 2 года назад

You just redefined the ultimate dystopia.

@timmotel5804 2 года назад

WoW. That was excellent. Encore! Thank You

@elishh8173 2 года назад

Wow. This was unexpected. You are GREAT Dust!!!

@billyandrew 2 года назад

Dust is just the channel that airs the work of individual film makers.

@PragmaticOptimist_N7 2 года назад

Brilliant! Just niggling is why they didn't ask the 'prisoner ' what happened that caused him to be in such a situation instead of 'what happened' to him?

@yhird 2 года назад

Bravo. Outstanding acting, plot, and script.

@elonever.2.071 2 года назад

Does that mean a person that survives the academy must always make 'good' decisions or risk the same fate?

@trex283 Год назад

Dark. Good short.

@TerryMcGearyScotland 2 года назад

Haven’t watched one for a long time. This was good. Thanks. Must watch them weekly.

@Demanicon 2 года назад

What is the toast for? Eating? Is it a hall pass? Some sort of graduation certificate?

@22kpar1xcyberdyne9 Год назад

Thumbs down because it ended without an ending. People like completion, order, and knowledge within their Utopian mind.

@Semirotta 2 года назад

Its quite unfortunate how Americans have almost completely forgotten the importance of education and it shows now in their daily life to all over the world.

@stevenscott2136 2 года назад

Oh, we still understand it just fine. We just don't have the spine to stand up to the neo-Marxist cult whose adherents now control our education, media, financial institutions, courts, legislature, and major corporations. The cult wants our people uneducated (or mis-educated) and everyone sees it as somebody else's problem. The lesson from our failure is DON'T listen to people who say your traditional ways are wrong. Perhaps they are, but you'll evolve new ones over time -- anyone asking for sudden significant change has an unacceptably high chance of being a dangerous subversive. You won't listen to this advice, of course, so when they're finished taking us down, they'll be coming after you next. It's like a horrible meme, that gets stuck in minds and destroys once-functional cultures.

@Semirotta 2 года назад

@@stevenscott2136 That good sir, was a great respond.