Waterborne

The concept alone is good. And believable, with water resources experiencing an ever growing demand and so becoming a more likely target for attack.

We saw this short as part of the Horror-on-Sea film festival. I don't think we'd seen many Australian entries so it was nice to see something of a different style.

In Los Angeles, the authorities find that the tap water is contaminated due to a terrorist attack after the death of eight dwellers. The military Ritter (Jon Gries) leaves his wife Jasmine (Lindsay Price) and his daughter at home to patrol the dam with the bigoted and stressed soldier Carlton (Chris Berry).

I thought this was an interesting and powerful depiction of what could happen in such a situation from 3 different perspectives that then come together at the climax. Unlike some, I thought the dialogue and direction was very good and the cinematography pretty good for a low budget indie film.

Waterborne was disappointing, and not because it was overall a bad film. It was disappointing because of how much better it could've been, and how much promise it showed but ignored.

Generally, I am all zombied out. Countless (blank) of the Dead films, the Walking Dead television series, the Walking Dead prequel series and enough undead brain and flesh eaters in my Netflix queue to fill an entire year's worth of free time, zombies have become somewhat of a recurring redundant joke in daily life.

I've been to Australia about 4 times in the last few years, generally for about 2 weeks each time; one thing all these trips have in common is that at least once in each of those trips I read a story of someone being attacked by some sort of dangerous creature. I've also had the typically Australian experience of having kangaroos deciding that dashing across the road (or standing in the middle of it) at night is a great idea.

I, as a witness to the world Trade disaster. I felt very emotionally evolved in this film.

I saw the World Premiere of "Waterborne" at South by Southwest, and it is compelling both as an examination of what would happen if Los Angelos came under biological attack and as a human drama. The acting is excellent, the music is original and works perfectly, and the direction is right-on for this kind of film.