Old Man

Set in present-day Southern California, Lewis Segovia is a naive, college-aged film director embarking on his ambitious first feature. Driven by a creative passion, he invests his entire high school savings and calls in countless favors, but midway through production, he abandons the script in pursuit of something "deeper." As his inner conflict intensifies, pressure from his crew mounts. Desperate for inspiration, Lewis crosses ethical boundaries by exploiting a real-life runaway, mirroring the character in his discarded script. This confrontation forces him to confront personal insecurities rooted in himself, in his parent’s divorce. With renewed determination, Lewis returns to filmmaking, only to find the elusive nature of “meaningfulness” still haunts him. As the line between fiction and reality blurs, he struggles to secure funding for his faltering project, confront his mortality, and make peace with the lingering pain of his parent’s separation.