Ty

Today I was given an awesome opportunity to review the extraordinary drama film by Bruno Miotto titled “Ty” This short film is not your typical kind of drama, no heated exchange of dialogues and no heavy crying scene but instead director Bruno Miotto offers a film saturated with emotion. With all-out honesty, this short film is the kind that will make you feel that you are bound to see something extra-good, and these kind of movies are beginning to get rare these days. You see, there are filmmakers that will take you further into a futuristic setting with all the ‘out of this world’ set up, but throughout watching have you asked yourself if you felt that you are in the future? And there are those that state to take you in setting decades back in time but did it actually take you in the past? This is where the brilliance of the likes of our director Bruno Miotto steps in. He doesn’t only tells the story in the setting of 1998, but he takes you along with a surreal feeling and visuals.

”Ty” is a story of a young boy named Tyler from a dysfunctional ultra-conservative family. He is forced into labor and shut from the reality of the world that existed outside their community. Set somewhere in Utah and Arizona border, I sure did feel I was back in 1998. The story was intriguing. It has an unidentifiable tension that had me keen into discovering what mystery behold Ty and his family. From the point of picking up Ty from his workplace to their little road trip to the convenient store was like seeing silent puzzle piece screaming to be put together. Though the movie was a little less than eight-minute short director Bruno Miotto was able to exhibit the gravity of the situation and why Ty needs to act immediately and grab what seems to be the only opportunity he has to escape the only reality he has known all his life.

Aside from the compelling way the story was told, the movie had excellent qualities too. The cinematic experience was exquisite; the color grading was spot on. It was like 1998 again, I believe I was the same age as Tyler back in 1998, and it was exactly how I remembered it. The color and the vibe speaks for it all. Director Bruno Miotto also had an excellent cast. Erik Jorn Sundquist, Mara Swanson, Caroline O’Meara, Carina LaMarchinam, and of course, Marik Knight lived up to the disposition of the characters they portray. They didn’t have that many dialogues to throw at each other, but they filled the scene with their presence and the emotion their character is going through. Lastly, I would like to commend director Bruno Miotto’s vision and execution of making this film. As a first time filmmaker, he showed brilliance in filmmaking by exhibiting visual opportunities and instilling emotional efficacy with every scene. This is an award caliber film. I am quite sure to see this movie come festival night. To the whole team of ”Ty”, you all did a great job, cheers to this amazing film!