Sci-Fi Fantasy Short Film 'The Gray' | DUST | Online Premiere

A former cop works in purgatory and processes people going to heaven or hell. One day, his 20-year-old son appears.

"The Gray" by Myra Aquino

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Perez is a former cop who has been judged to be morally “gray”— someone who is neither good nor evil. As penalty for not choosing a moral lane, he’s been forced to take a job in purgatory to process people going to heaven or hell. One day, his 20-year old son appears— full of both yearning and resentment for his father— and he gets into a series of shenanigans to stay in purgatory with Perez.

Under pressure from his supervisor, Perez decides to kick his son out of purgatory, but instead of sending him to heaven (or hell), he commits the ultimate sin and sends his son back to Earth, even if it means that Perez will spend eternity in hell. In the end, however, Perez’s actions are judged to be sacrificial and for the good of his son, and he is thus finally sent to heaven.

"The Gray" Credits:
PRODUCTION
Director Myra Aquino
Writer Myra Aquino
1st Assistant Director Martin Yang
Line Producers Ceren Bulca, Yousef Assabahi, Kady Le
Script Supervisor Bisi Chung

CAMERA
Director of Photography Hsing Che Lin
1st Assistant Camera Julia Angley
2nd Assistant Camera Paul Sheets

GRIP AND ELECTRIC
Gaffer Patrick Boyd
Swing G&E Paul Sheets

SOUND
Sound Mixer Hailong Niu
Devin Loring Boom Operator

COSTUME
Costume Designer Jien Sun
Assistant Costume Designer Caroline Skubik
Assistant Costume Designer Alejandra Madrigal-Avina

HAIR AND MAKEUP
Hair and Makeup Arist Armee Jacob

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Production Designer Anais Bernard
Assistant Production Designer Akeira Narayandas

CAST
Perez Caesar James
Carlo Nand Mahasuwan
Briggs Monique Chachere
Lucy Mary Burkin
Edgar John Atkins
Marta Tita Pambid
Guard 1 Ben Cassidy
Guard 2 Nikki O
Craig Eero Liu
Background Cast Lambert Grand, Victor Montaserio,
Johanna Thea, Isaac Rodriguez,
Alejandra Madrigal-Avina, Paul Sheets,
Patrick Boyd, Bisi Chung

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[darrennew]

One of the few Dust videos that actually had a complete story beginning to end. Very nicely done!

[marymaza]

"Stop running! You're already dead!" LOL 🤣

[cosanostra]

She spoke tagalog, his mother is filipino.
I Love Philippines!, Thanks DUST!, Loved it!❤

[immanutt]

" This is a fire alarm - don't be alarmed "

[Kayjee]

I loved it! A clear story with a beginning, middle, and end that was both interesting and heart-warming. The visual equivalent of a well written short story. Thanks!

[marymaza]

"You're too young to die!"
"So were you!" 😭😭

[markj]

Very cute and clever. Heartwarming. FANTASTIC! I loved it!

[chazzyb]

First there were the bullying robots making their target do the worst thing. Then there was this hopeful little tale. Happy Christmas everyone.

[kerrymax-dxmz]

That was a perfect Christmas treat! Fantastic. Thank you so much.

[Banerled]

*Oh my gosh, please unlock auto subtitles for English.*

[ruffrider]

That was great! You all did a good job across the board. Good story. Well executed. Score fit well. Bravo.
Thanks for sharing this with us!
Cheers!

[Fretless]

It's unfortunate that there is no closed captioning for this, It looks great, but I am a hearing impaired person.I love to watch this again....I hope for the day whenpartially deaf people like me areacknowledge more :-)

[kurtdowney]

When it's time I hope it's really like this. A reflection of self atonement and time to figure it out. Well done loved this.

[alanw]

Damn this was good. Just when it was starting to lose me, it then had me nearly tearing up at the end. Great story.

[johnstucko]

Please turn on/allow/use close caption! Please!!

[meganet]

A moth wouldn't leave a car my Dad and Uncles were in after my Grandma's funeral. Other unexplained strange things happened as well.

[kNightMarek]

"This is a fire alarm. Don't be alarmed" 😆

[Vares]

That was great! I have always loved these kinds of stories and this was a really fresh take on the whole concept. Thanks!

[AppNasty]

"I'm doing the work nobody wants to do."
YES, BATMAN. lol. 10/10.

[norb]

I'd usually put this sort of story in the genre of Infernal Fiction, but not so sure about that here. Well done short.. congratulations.