Cannes Film Festival 2025 – Film Submitted
The film was unfortunately not selected for competition, and that’s okay. The true goal was never just recognition—it was to create a story and a film using nothing but an iPhone, and I achieved that.
The film follows an artist grappling with the shifting landscape of creativity, confronting the rise of AI as a challenge to human artistic expression. Creating it was an immense challenge, especially as a one-man production: writing, directing, filming, and editing every frame alone. Every choice, every detail, rested solely on my shoulders.
The odds of being selected for a festival like Cannes are slim for any filmmaker, let alone for a solo project made on a phone. Yet the real reward wasn’t the potential accolades—it was the act of creating something from nothing. Bringing a vision to life entirely by hand, ensuring every frame, every word, every emotion remained purely human, was an invaluable experience.
It took two months from start to finish, and in that time, I was reminded that the journey—the struggle, the discipline, the creative risk—is where the true meaning lies.
The film will soon be available on YouTube, and I’ll share the link here.
Behind the shoot of "The Angel of Death."
We follow John, a solitary man traveling through the sun-drenched landscapes of Italy to retrieve his father’s car. He carries the quiet weight of knowing that his own time is limited, and every mile he drives seems to echo that inevitability.
Along the way, he encounters a woman—a prostitute—whose path crosses his by chance. On a whim, he offers her a lift, with no expectation beyond a brief connection. Yet during the journey, an unlikely friendship develops. Their conversations are fragile, charged with honesty, loneliness, and fleeting moments of human connection.
But beneath the surface, she is more than she appears. She is his angel—an enigmatic guide whose presence will lead him toward his final destination. Unbeknownst to John, every choice, every interaction, every shared moment is guiding him to the end of his life. The film explores mortality, fate, and the delicate, sometimes ironic ways in which we encounter the forces that shape our final journey.
Synopsis "Killing Angles"
Chicago, 1930s. Beneath the city’s roaring nightlife and rising corruption lies a secret no one was meant to see. When two patrolmen stumble upon the body of a woman with wings in the labyrinthine sewers, they call in Detective Castell. To them, she is an angel. To Castell, she is the beginning of a descent into Chicago’s darkest underworld.
As he follows the trail, Castell uncovers a web of corruption, forbidden science, and human experiments masquerading as progress. Each step drags him deeper into a city where power is bought with blood, faith collides with fear, and the line between the divine and the monstrous blurs.
Killing Angels is a shadow-soaked noir thriller where one man’s search for truth exposes how far humanity will go in its hunger to play God.
Set construction for feature film "Killing Angels"
A few Storyboards created for the film "Killing Angles"
