Grace From Above - C&I Films

A C&I Studios Original Short Film

FROM

GRACE

ABOVE

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Life is not predictable. Happiness is not black and white.

With a simple touch, Sam can see his life, his future, and what it would be like with her. It makes him reconsider…everything. But the happiness foretold — that surreal showing of what life could be — can only be cultivated by heartbreak. Because Grace, the woman whose touch has revealed a warm, welcoming, and possible future, is a complete stranger. And Sam is committed to another. They sit together on a plane — Sam flying home, Grace with her hand on his, and the foretelling of a happy life, which, for the moment, exists only in the static energy emanating between their harmless embrace 15,000 feet in the air.

They are strangers. They are familiar. They don’t know any better.

written & directed by Joshua Miller

produced by Amy Miller

starring Brigitte Kali Canales & Rico Aragon

Director’s Note

Grace From Above is the result of me flying all over the world and spending too much time in airplanes. I wrote this entire screenplay on a plane and immediately knew I wanted to work with Rico and Brigitte, who starred in our television series, The Distance. I wrote this film to depict the connections we make with people, and to question whether these connections are real or simply imagined. I believe that the average person’s existence is tiny when put into perspective. So, I wanted to tell a story about this; about the outcome of someone speaking with a person who isn’t in their small little bubble and feeling a truly passionate connection with them. Would you be the same? Would you trust your feelings? How would this change your choices in life? In Grace From Above, our protagonist has the ultimate choice to make. When he meets someone and feels something that he is sure is real but so obviously imagined, he has to do what we all have to do every day… choose between the life we have and the one we dream of having.