Award of Merit – “Fracture” (USA)

Title: Fracture
Runtime: 11 min
Country: USA
Director: Suz Carr
Placement: Award of Merit
Competition: December, 2017

Synopsis: All it takes is one moment to shatter a life. The Bliss family looks perfect on the outside; a successful high school coaching career for John Bliss; his wife, Leah, is a loving wife and mother, and their normal, happy teen aged fraternal twins, Harley and Jack, are loved by all who know them. To their family and friends – the outside world – The Bliss household is happy, healthy and to be admired. From the inside, there are growing fissures in the perfect persona. Flaws that, after an accident, multiply exponentially; leading all the Bliss’s into the arms of tragedy, and leaving them eternally Fractured.