Bringing Down a Giant

Creator: Lucas Rios
Age rating: 13 and older
A father struggles to save his relationship with his son and to remind him about his real identity.
Project collaboration: Open
Full synopsis
Synopsis: Charlie enjoys a beautiful relationship with his Father who is a writer and works at home, so they imagine stories and spend a lot of time together.
When Charlie starts growing up, he begins to fall away from his father, and slowly becomes someone else as he has to experience making decisions on his own and dealing with problems that break his heart.
When his father confronts him to try and help him, Charlie runs away to be alone in the dark.
But as he is struggling with himself in the dark, his father comes to remind him of his love for him and leaves him a book as a gift. Although Charlie rejects this gift at first, he then examines it and starts reading it. That's when he remembers his childhood. his days as a boy, happy, secure.
Charlie goes back home to meet with his father...a different man.

Latest Work

  • Test Movie 1 - Short Film
    11/25/10
    Creative Notes:
    This short film was made all in a week. It was hard to come up with the story, write it, shoot it and do the animation, but in the end we came through. It was a great learning experience in terms of the technical aspects of telling a story.