Directed by Liam Karp

Logline: A young boy discovers a darkness in his family when an estranged grandfather comes to stay overnight.

Synopsis: "Tattoo" is a short dramatic film centering on the character Zaydeh coming to his estranged family's home for an overnight visit. Zaydeh's grandchild, just a boy, comes to realize that the grandfather he thought he knew is plagued by a horrific past. In one night, Zaydeh's trauma as a Holocaust survivor will haunt the house like a hereditary specter. Passing from onegeneration to the next.

Distribution Contact: WFG

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RUNTIME: 16 Minutes
GENRE: Narrative, Fiction
PRODUCTION FORMAT: HD
LANGUAGE: English, Yiddish
LOCATION: Manitoba
TECHNIQUES: Visual Effects
KEYWORDS: Jewish, Yiddish, Dark Past, LGBTQ Filmmaker, Culturally Diverse Filmmaker

Director's Statement: Tattoo is the first short film I have ever written and directed. It takes a lot of inspiration from my early childhood growing up in a small Jewish household My Zaydeh and Bubbeh were both survivors of the Holocaust and the effects of hardship they had to endure rippled through my family in many concrete and abstract forms. The impetus to create this film was to portray my childhood in a way that was both personal and relatable to audiences both Jewish and non-Jewish.