One For The Road based on a short story by a famous horror novelist will have its World Premiere at LA Shorts International Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Los Angeles,  California, July 9, 2024 – One For The Road, written by Corey Slater and directed by Daniel Carsenty, is having its World Premiere on Sunday, July 21 at the LA Shorts film festival in Los Angeles. The film stars Alexander Flores, Katie Adler, Travis Hammer, Lisa Goodman, Elester Latham, and Richard Clarke Larson. The festival runs July 17-28 at La Regal Live in Los Angeles. 

When a stranger ambles into a roadside diner in the dead of night, two friendly Samaritans prove no good deed goes unpunished. One for the Road is the story of two movers who reluctantly help a waitress deal with a stranger in the dead of night. The script is based on a short story by Stephen King.

The Tropes, are well known: a diner, a stranger looking for help, a stranded car in the desert. But the story is only about these tropes on the surface — it’s really a reflection of one of the biggest moral dilemmas of our time: Should we take the risk of helping someone we don’t know, or is it better to mind our own business? Trailer

ABOUT DIRECTOR: Berlinale Talents alumni Daniel Carsenty wrote and directed the thriller “After Spring Comes Fall” in 2015. It won the award for Best Feature at the Zsigmond Vilmos Festival. His second film, “The Devil’s Drivers,” a documentary about a Bedouin smuggler, premiered at TIFF in 2021, won the Special Jury Award at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, and was nominated by the Cinema for Peace Foundation for Best Documentary. A graduate of AFI, Daniel came to filmmaking after working as a TV journalist for ARTE and BBC in zones of conflict. 

“As a director, what I love most about horror movies is that they are about getting as close as possible to what makes me afraid. In my opinion, a good horror story carries as much hope as it creates fear. If these two emotions play out against each other, we start to care,” says Carsenty. He reached out to King during his time at AFI, hoping to use horror narrative to tell the same stories about the darkness of humanity that he did in his documentaries. 

ABOUT LA SHORTS:  LA Shorts International Film Festival is an Oscar and BAFTA qualifying festival, and is the longest-running short film festival in Los Angeles. 

WORLD PREMIERE
Sunday, July 21, 2024, 10:00 P.M., Program 26
Regal LA Live – DTLA