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‘Indigo Blue’ Writer-Director Albert Pritchard On Tackling Familial Desperation Within The Healthcare Crisis In Sean Baker-Backed Short Film
Writer-director Albert Pritchard speaks to Deadline about making his indie short film Indigo Blue thanks to Neon, Kodak and director Sean Baker
In the short film drama Indigo Blue, written and directed by Albert Pritchard, low-income parents (played by Jayme Lawson and Charles Brice) struggle to secure affordable healthcare for their sick daughter. It’s really an intimate portrait of this couple that are trying to just do the best that they can with the means and resources and abilities that they know to be able to protect and give their daughter a healthy, thriving life, or that’s at least their goal and their hope, as most parents do have. I wanted to allow the audience to sit into the gray and to be challenged by how far we can stretch the empathy to understand, “OK, this is why these parents are making this decision, and this is why the husband, Charles Brice’s character, is doing this.” And it’s not as easy as, are these people monsters or are they humans?
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