About this project
ONE LAST RUN (OLR) is a short comedy about 3 small time crooks from the neighborhood of Pigtown, in Baltimore MD, who need to find another score to payoff a debt. The film stars, John Makowski, as the one eyed "Branch Calhoun". The son of one of the most notorious criminals in Baltimore, Branch has found it hard to live up to his father's legacy.
Teamed up with his two best friends, Marcus and Syd, they are known around town as "The Benz Boyz". This is for their love of Mercedes Benz cars and the luxury lifestyle. We spend the film following Branch as he makes dumb decision after dumb decision, only to find what he wasn't looking for.
Yes, I know that last sentence threw you off. Its a short. I can't give too much away or you won't have anything to look forward to.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT:
When my good friend Ian Mattingly (co-writer) approached me with the story of OLR I wasn't quick to jump on board. I had been focusing on darker themes and wanted my next piece to be a feature film in that world. Plus I hadn't tested the waters of narrative short comedy yet and it wasn't something I felt drawn to.
But after sitting with it for a month or two I started to see how I could take what was this simple comedy and make it unlike what I've seen comedic film to be and take it beyond just entertainment. To do this, every element of the film has to be executed and treated with the cinematic quality we praise in films that is outside of this genre. Not to say I'll be making an "art film" but taking the creativity of the image to the next level.
I'm excited to take a first stab at comedy and see where it goes from here. Since working on OLR with Ian, I have written two other comedies, dark of course, that I plan to produce in 2012.
Here's the trailer to my last short, MOTH.
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Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Hilton Carter began his passion for the arts at an early age. This will and desire would take him from enrolling in summer art classes at local community colleges at the age of nine, to a high school that specialized in art and technology.
After completing studies at Carver Center for Arts & Technology, Hilton was accepted into the Maryland Institute, College of Art (MICA). Along with general fine art classes, Hilton further developed and honed his desire to create films in the video classes that were provided there at MICA, while taking advantage of the film classes available at John Hopkins University.
After completing his bachelor's degree at MICA, he moved to Los Angeles to further his studies in film, entering the Masters Program at Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, CA. By the time Hilton earned his Masters in Film in 2006, he had completed many independent projects outside of school, ranging from short films and music videos to commercials. He has since created short films, commercials for leading companies like LG and Verizon, and music videos for nationally recognized artists.
Through educational and professional training, many years of development as an artist, and the influential people throughout his life, Hilton Carter continues his creative profession as a filmmaker and artist creating fine art through innovative moving images.
