A Coquitlam native who is in the CBC Short Film Faceoff is rallying his hometown to help him clinch the national prize.
Alan Miller, a Centennial secondary graduate, saw his film In Passing advance this month in the reality TV competition; it received a perfect score from CBC arts critic and judge Eli Glasner.
Miller wrote and directed the four-minute flick as part of his master's thesis last year at the University of Southern California. The plot revolves around a man and woman jumping off a Vancouver building at the same time and, ironically, find love mid-air.
Now, Miller is up against two other directors to take the Faceoff title. The winner, who will be picked in a public vote starting on Saturday, will receive a $45,000 production package when the show ends on Oct. 4.
"I'd love to bring it back to B.C. to make a new film," Miller told The Tri-City News.
In 2011, Miller made it to the Top 3 in the same competition with Conrad the Wise. To vote for In Passing after Episode 3 airs on Sept. 27, visit cbc.ca/shortfilmfaceoff/index.html.
