Damage Control
"While surprising his fiancée with a newly inherited property, a man is forced by a mysterious woman to confront his past behavior."
FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL Official Selection 2018
Best Thriller of the Year, Top Shorts Film Festival 2019
FILM SHORTAGE Selected Weekly Feature
filmshortage.com/shorts/damage-control/
"This one totally through me threw a loop, and the twist was amazing. Such a great revenge story in just a short amount of time – one of the best I’ve seen in 2018. This just shows that you never truly know who someone is or what dirty secrets they may have."
- PopHorror.com
"With the film not being promoted as a product of the #MeToo or #TimesUp movement, the fact that it slips into the story and catches us by surprise makes it all that more powerful." 4/5 stars.
- Film Shortage
"Of the many things you may try to leave behind in life guilt is often the hardest to shake off, with the consequences of past behavior resurfacing in the present when you least expect it. This is a theme disturbingly explored in Ryan Oksenberg’s short Damage Control."
- Director's Notes
"There is nothing better than watching a short that is able to tell a concise story that is both quick and concise. Damage Control plays out like a digital age Telltale Heart, using a metaphysical force to prey on a man’s mounting guilt. I don’t want to dig too deep into what it is about, but trust me when I say that it is intense and satisfying."
-Blaine McLaren, The Farsighted.
‘Damage Control’ is an unsettling tale of retribution, justice and simply put, how karma never forgets an address.
- Indie Shorts Mag
BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ACTOR at Top Shorts Online Film Festival
http://www.topshorts.net/april-2018
'Making Of' Article on DIRECTOR'S NOTES by MarBelle
http://directorsnotes.com/2018/04/30/ryan-oksenberg-damage-control/
Director: Ryan Oksenberg
Writer: Matthew Wygodny
Starring: Clayton Farris, Heather Geisler, Ana Zimhart
Cinematographer & Colorist: Andy Chinn
Original Music by: Alexander Thomas
Editor: Ryan Oksenberg
1st AC: Rob Snyder
Grip & Electric: Joseph Tan
Sound Recordist: Scott Marshall, Rob Fillmore
Sound Mixer: Terence Deutsch, Christian Deutsch
Make up: Haley Bringel
VFX: Ricardo Torres
Special Thanks: Melanie Malia
