Sci-Fi Short Film 'Veritas' | DUST

A brave renegade steals sensitive data in hopes of restoring her home planet and its people.

"Veritas" by Ryan Northcott

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"Veritas" Credits:
Directors: Kyle Tiernan, Ryan Northcott
Producers: Morgan Leblanc, Kyle Tiernan
Director of Photography: Kyle Tiernan
Sound: Brandon Knudson
1st AC: Jared Nichyporuk
BTS: Jordan Rioux
1st AD: Shelby Reinitz

Talent: Cody Porter,
Natasha Soper, Pierce Briggs, Gilbert Allen, Morgan Leblanc,

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[BinaryOrchestra]

We hope you enjoy Veritas! Let us know if you’d like to see this story go further… Who would like to see a feature film version of Veritas?😊

[NoHandleToSpeakOf]

CC is a must. Non-native speaker like me is having hard time discerning it all.

[ariellevin]

WHY ARE THERE NO I enjoy a good sci fi story as much as the next person, but when you can't understand the dialog...it's just wonderful moving pictures!

[russward]

13 minutes of this story is not enough. Give us prequels, sequels, side-stories, whatever please.
With storytelling and world-building of this caliber, there Will be an audience. I will be part of it.
Excellent stuff. Thanks for this. I can't wait for more. ✌️🖖

[frobnosticate]

Interesting. But the audio made it hard to follow what people were saying, so I probably missed some of it. No subtitles either.

[theindependent]

It always amazes me that with all the time, effort, and money that go into these shorts that the one thing they almost all fail at is providing Closed Caption...

[cmh]

Am a disabled boomer with some twichtes that come of being a professional U.S. soldier during the Cold War. Long before I signed on the dotted line my best friends could not understand that sometimes it comes to tooth and claw.

So cool to see what the kids (which are everyone my kids age of younger) are doing with technology: Am counting on them as the 'grred is good!' faction of my generation sold out the legacy; which some of us recognized all along, that our fathers and mothers earned for us. So sad that so much of the output is so dystopian.

Had a Sci Fi class on the way to my degree (BA 1973) that caused me to buy a three volume anthology (my oldest digested every page) and onty one story was so far gone that I could not suspend my sense of disbelief. Came the plague and Jack Vance's "The Moon Moth" suddenly became a thing.

Wish we had not left such a mess, but I still believe you can do it. You are all better prepared for the future than we were.

Yes. Expand on it, but please let truth, justice and love carry the field. I cannot live in a world bereft of what a single act of courage can do for us all.

[psecdocumentary]

A short film that leaves you with no answers, and many questions.

[neilruedlinger]

There are many Star Wars homages evident in this film, from the fashions to the boy's father having a resemblance to a younger Uncle Owen when Anakin Skywalker was a child.

[Elkyri]

Stories are told with dialogue. Here, the score overwhelms the dialogue at times making the story hard to follow. I sit with my hand on the mouse, adjusting volume back and forth -- up to hear the dialogue as best I can, then down when no one is speaking. If captions had been available I would have set the volume to the score and read the story.

[LeviAWilson]

Question? What happened to all the "Subtitles/Closed Captions" for all the newer Dust programs? Sometimes the sound for these are really low, so it's nice to be able to read what is being said. All of the older Dust movies had this. But now with these newer Dust movies I find myself if I can barely hear what the actors are saying, then I'll just stop the movie and go watch something else. That wasn't a good move whoever came up with not making that available for these videos anymore because these stories are so good.

[kevinkall]

The sound/voices were too low. had system sound 100% and still missed words. CC was also not avail.

[NameRequiredSoHere]

I couldn't hear what they were saying and the caption function was disabled. Could someone explain the plot?

[jeromejooste]

Nice cinemaphotography, cool wardrobe and sets. CGI was pretty good as well, especially the little drone buddy. What on earth was the storyline and who were the random group of earthlings arriving to pick up a device from under a bush whilst broadcasting their intentions loud and clear in the vicinity of the anti-radio mass murderer. Yes I certinly would like to see how the story unfolds over time. Just been watching the fabulous Dark and 1899 so yeah I'm all in for a story that has a logical beginning, middle and end.

[kLR_iNsTiNcT_]

The Short is great, but at 2:54 the chess game, he can't move to that spot with the king, only option is to eat the pawn.

[TropicalCoder]

The chess move he made with his king - to the right of the advancing pawn - was illegal. You can't move into check!

[prestonhurst]

The sound was so low, I had to turn my headphones AND pc all the way up and I could still barely hear it. Besides that it was decent.

[lousminella]

Another dust movie, where i completely don't know what's going on..especially at the end...it just goes off!!

[tomastomanek]

I'm not a chess expert but I think he made an illegal move with that King. Actually, the king was not in danger at that moment. Also, that checkmate is not checkmate, King can still take the bishop.

[MrMannyfresh]

Decent. Personally, the better film imo would tell a story about the events leading up to this.

Also, what was the point of sending out these broadcasts? Just words of encouragement? The technology is advanced enough to allow for space travel but the resistance can’t send a direct message to their own people about the data shard? Imo it would’ve made more sense for the bad guys to covertly intercept a secret message between resistance groups.

I’d be interested in seeing more if this has a unique story. If this is just another version of Star Wars then no.