More Dead Than Living

SHORT | 17:30

A bitter, cranky widow is visited by Death, who lets him know that his time is up. He’s ready and happy to die but not without having one last “magic” adventure with his estranged daughter, whom he never got it right with.

Director Biography - JT Doran

In my first act, I was a poor kid, from the hood’, with a single-mother, sick parent, and on paper, headed for a hard-knock life. But I took an unexpected and unpredictable U-turn and become the person I wasn’t meant to be.

As a child, the movies grabbed me with a clutch one feels once in a lifetime. Here, I escaped reality and yet understood more and more about reality and people with each film. As I grew up, film, the theater, stories, all of them felt like magic, felt like home and a hybrid university and gym that existed to sharpen and shape my soul, my mind, character, values and creative muscles. In between films, it was home, Queens, NYC - the people, the cultures, the experiences, the possibilities, the pains, the grit people need to persevere through this thing called “life” here - that embedded in me deep curiosity, empathy, survive and strive instincts, and a visceral awe of humanity and story.