Fireworks Logo

Latest Shorts...

  • Little One
  • Ismay - 'Stranger in the Barn'
  • Chappell Roan: Casual
  • Worst Date, Best Date
  • My Condolences to Your Future Lovers
  • What I'm Hiding from You...
  • I Know Two Boys
  • Halfway
  • Cursive
  • Safety State
  • YDHTLM: You Don't Have to Like Me
  • For the Ones Stuck at Home
  • Maika Küster: Wtchsong
  • Out of the Corner of Our Eye
  • Pride is not available in your region
  • Cul Riculum Vitae
  • Batter My Heart
  • 13 grammes
  • Frisky Business
  • Pacemaker
  • Ausência
  • Best Wishes
  • Bro
  • Camderina Diner (The)
  • Other Side of Clean (The)
  • altSHIFT Volume One
  • Male Gaze: A Better Tomorrow (The)
  • Hangry
  • Strange Way of Life
  • Troy
  • Revived
  • Lollygag
  • Bleach
  • Dykes on Bikes: An Origin Story
  • Betty and Jean
  • Malcolm
  • Talent (The)
  • Just Passing
  • First Kiss (The)
  • Bubbling

Pyotr495

Country: USA | Russia, Language: English | Russian, 15 mins

  • Director: Blake Mawson
  • Writer: Blake Mawson
  • Producer: Patrick Burgenn; Sasha Fisher

CGiii Comment

When someone can pack as much cruelty, despair, humour and fantasy into this amount of time...you just know that you witnessing a mighty fine talent.

Blake Mawson...we applaud you!


Watch...

PYOTR495 from DRIVE-IN/KEEP OUT Productions on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

Set one evening in present-day Moscow, 16 year-old Pyotr is baited by an ultra-nationalist group known for their violent abductions and attacks bolstered by Russia's LGBT propaganda law, but Pyotr has a dangerous secret.

Cast & Characters

Alex Ozerov as Pyotr;
Alanna Bale as Josephine;
Juliana Semenova as Dominika;
Max Rositsan as Sergei;
Grisha Pasternak as Ivan;
Justin Strazzanti as Vlad;
Michael Levine as Male News Host