Audience Feedback: THE LOT, 15min., USA, Drama

See the best of the December 7, 2016 Los Angeles FEEDBACK Film Festival

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK VIDEO:

THE LOT, 15min., USA, Drama
Directed by Russell Blanchard

When a lonely cafe owner struggles to help an outcast boy build a fort on a blighted lot, their project and budding friendship is threatened by a city ordinance.

Director’s Statement: THE LOT is intended to spread a message of hope and the idea that we all have the power to make a change. I was in an empty coffee shop one block from my house in New Orleans when I struck up a conversation with the cafe owner, Baakir Tyehimba. We discussed the topic of reaching out to help and how sometimes people miss opportunities that exist outside their own window. We discussed a shared passion to reach out and make a difference in the community. Baakir then told me a story that seven…