Before Mars – Short Film

Short film, space and astronauts, character story, futuristic, a short film that tells the story of the twins Hana and Joon Seung who would one day grow up to travel to Mars on the first manned mission to the red planet, twin sisters, identical twins, moving, new home, adjustment, small town, quiet neighborhood, familiarizing with new house, taking a tour, book discovery, radio communication, new school, lunch time, chopsticks, fiddling with radio transmitter, finding signal, at the diner, mystery old man, sitting with old man at the diner, searching for signal at a tennis court, walking around school alone, dinner time at home, riding bicycle alone, arriving at old man’s house, going through old man’s storage, sitting with old man on the porch, old man fixing radio transmitter, riding home at dusk, doing homework, meeting sister’s friend, shopping, clothing store, fitting clothes, stealing, running out of shop, running away, riding past a farm, reading sister’s note, communication with old man and sister using the radio transmitter, alone in the woods, rain pouring, radio transmitter not working, fixing, mother and daughter searching for sister in the woods, transmitter working, in trouble with mom, mom mad, communicating with an astronaut in space, mission accomplished, astronaut in ship, taking off, cheeks vibrating

Director: Lloyd Lee Choi