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Title: Designated Caretaker Redux
Runtime: 19 min
Country: USA
Director: Frederick Keeve
Placement: Honorable Mention
Competition: March 31, 2018
Synopsis: Genre: Family Drama
“For one human being to love another, that is perhaps our most difficult task, the task for which all others are but preparation.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Logline: Paul Miller has to come to grips with the fact that as a result of his obsession with completing a film about the great actor/artist Michael Chekhov, he is losing touch with his family and perhaps his sanity in the process. This film addresses man’s obsession with his dreams and his need to create…the eternal struggle to maintain personal balance in life and in art.
Synopsis: Paul Miller is making a film about the genius actor-artist, Michael Chekhov. The story is about the mystique of acting and Paul’s struggle to make his film while losing his grip on reality–his marriage falls apart and his wife, Amy, and his children feel alienated from him. Paul’s film, a feature-length documentary set in the heyday of Hollywood in the 40s and 50s, is highlighted by film clips and commentaries from some of its most luminous stars. As Paul sorts through the pieces of his broken marriage and the dissolution of family bonds, he begins to renew and strengthen his tenuous bond with his children—Andrew, Natasha, and Grace. Paul’s muse, Michael Chekhov, guides him on his journey, helping Paul to reclaim his own power both as a man, a father and as an artist.
