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EP Patton Oswalt Boards Oscar Contender Short ‘Sardinia’, Starring Martha Plimpton, Philip Ettinger


Patton Oswalt, Meredith Salenger board Oscar contender short 'Sardinia', Deadline can reveal

The dark satirical short, written and directed by Paul Kowalski( Paper Tiger), stars Philip Ettinger( First Reformed, I Know This Much Is True) as a deeply serious man battling a deadly laughing plague alongside Emmy winner Martha Plimpton( The Regime, Mass). “What Paul Kowalski does, with equal measures of hilarity and horror, is show the world go quickly off-kilter—and the subsequent ‘correction’ to ‘normality’ makes this worse. Sardinia premiered in competition at Indy Shorts earlier this year, with Kowalski winning Grand Prize Best Director at Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival.

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