While pursuing their unique artistic paths, they’ve also been a creative force churning out short film items since 2008’s Ella and the Astronaut and the Sundance-programmed Charlie and the Rabbit in 2010 — which would land Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 new faces in 2010. Their feature debut Forty Years from Yesterday (Locarno 2013) played the film fest circuit, and Machoian would be welcomed back to Park City in 2013 with shorts Movies Made from Home #15 and Movies Made from Home #6. Formerly titled “The Latchkey Kids,” the California based filmmakers’ sophomore feature film that has gotten some recent traction. God Bless the Child was invited at the Poland’s American Film Festival’s U.S. in Progress this past October, and is a finalist for some coin support via the SFFS / Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grant.
Gist: Five siblings spend a summer day on their own. Only the eldest—the one girl, 13—knows their mother may never be coming back, and while looking after her brothers she lets them just be little kids, drawing them closer to herself as the day goes by.
Production Co./Producers: Robert Thomas, Laura Heberton (Thou Wast Mild and Lovely)
Prediction: NEXT section is likely, with a smidgen of a chance for the U.S. Dramatic Competition section.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic). TBD (international)
Note: Made correction to details above.
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