Plot

The story of two brothers, Tom and Jake, and their problematic relationship.

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Back in 2013, after over three years of trying to get The Witch financed, to no avail, Jay Van Hoy and Lars Knudsen, my producers at Parts & Labor, explained that financiers wanted to see some recent work. It had been five years since I had made my last short film, The Tell-Tale Heart, which was quite stylized, and tonally very different from the film we were trying to make. Jay and Lars suggested that I make a proof of concept short film that had scary woods, starred children, and had naturalistic performances. I was up to the challenge. Luckily, I knew of a great location five minutes from where I grew up in rural New Hampshire that I could set an atmospheric story with the necessary ingredients. This Cain and Abel story was based on my own childhood memories of playing in the woods, stories of mid-century New Hampshire farm life, and a tragic hunting accident from the childhood of the poet Gregory Orr. The Witch was ultimately financed without the help of Brothers, but making this film proved to me and my closest collaborators, like cinematographer Jarin Blaschke, that we could indeed pull off The Witch. I’m proud to share Brothers with a wider audience.

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