Official selection, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival (August 7-13 2001)
Official selection, ACB Sacramento Film Festival (August 10-12 2001)
Official selection, IndieKINO International Film Festival (August 27-September 23 2001)
Official Selection and Merit Award, B-Movie Film Festival (December 2001)
Official Selection, New York Independent Film and Video Festival (July 2002)
"Four stars... a short feature that deserves a long-form retelling." Film Threat
SWAY by Philip Zlotorynski
Read the full Film Threat review
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SWAY featured in INsider Magazine
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SWAY
is a non-profit short film produced by Neptune Pictures
and Picture Suite Films in association with Cystic
Fibrosis Research, Inc. (CFRI) and the Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation to raise awareness about the hereditary disease cystic
fibrosis.
SWAY is the story of a seventeen-year-old boy afflicted with cystic fibrosis who, after witnessing the tragic death of his mother from the same disease, has lost the will to fight for his own life. His father, a widower now faced with the death of his only child, is torn between his son's wishes to stay out of the hospital and his own fear of losing the only family he has left.
Written
and directed by Philip Zlotorynski,
SWAY stars Robert
Pierce, John Michael Herndon, Diane Witter and newcomer Austin Sterling.
The film was produced and photographed by Scott Peck.
Cystic Fibrosis is the most common life-threatening hereditary disease in the United States, affecting more Americans than any other genetic disorder including Muscular Dystrophy.
Passed
down from parent to child, Cystic Fibrosis
kills by destroying the lungs and digestive system. At present, only half of
the children who suffer from this disease will survive to age 31, and there
is no cure.
But there is hope. For over 26 years, organizations like the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and Cystic Fibrosis Research Incorporated have been funding research and education in an effort to improve the quality and duration of the lives of CF patients, while researchers and scientists work to find a cure.
The reality of this disease can be ugly, the children and adults affected are real, and their time is limited. CFF and CFRI are here to help.
You
can help count the days for a cure. Research and education have made a difference
in helping CF families live a quality life. They have provided hope when despair
was all a family had known. To learn more about Cystic
Fibrosis and how you can help in the fight for a cure, contact CFRI
or CFF today.
