Leave Your Toys
Directed by Sam Barnett
Length:
15:19
Producers:
Sam Barnett, Quinn Dailey, Larry Yu, Kelly Kunyi Wang
Editor:
Harshith Kotni
Cinematographer:
Sean Chow
Sound Designer: Devon Hunt
When a Holocaust survivor visits her apostate son’s family for Christmas, she learns her history has been kept a secret from her young grandson. Forbidden by her son to speak about it in an effort to preserve the boy's innocence, she must decide whether to share her truth or remain silent.
Sam Barnett is a filmmaker raised in Belgium, now based in Brooklyn, NY. He seeks to use the medium of filmmaking to tell stories based around contentious truths through a lens of love and empathy. Leave Your Toys is his debut short.