Sci-Fi Short Film "LUNGS" | DUST | Starring Anoop Desai

In the near future, when environmental disaster threatens humanity and oxygen is scarce, Satchel, a former baseball pitcher, must fight to survive after turning her back on a group of violent murderers who are now hot on her heels.
"LUNGS" by Kieran Moreira
Starring Anoop Desai (What We Do in the Shadows, Russian Doll, American Idol)
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More About "LUNGS":
A no-hitter, a wasteland, a stranger.
LUNGS opens with a flashback of SATCHEL at the pinnacle of her competitive life: pitching a no-hitter. But this delusion of the past is short-lived, as we cut to the present to find the world is a crumbling wasteland, the environment now toxic. Satchel is running from a group of savage MARAUDERS led by a sadistic masked man. As Satchel flees the Marauders, she is desperate for a source of oxygen and comes across a STRANGER who offers to help her. However, her paranoia and mistrust lead her to accidentally stab the stranger and take his "lungs," metal canisters filled with fresh oxygen.
Satchel finds safety in an abandoned movie theater, where she meets ABHAY, another survivor. As Abhay treats Satchel's hallucinations, he tells her about his brother Nitesh and how he convinced Abhay that helping others was the key to survival. Satchel rejects that idea, skeptical of Abhay's motivations and insists there are no good people left, only to have Abhay express his sympathy.
But the past catches up with them when the Marauders find them, and Abhay realizes his brother is dead. In his grief, Abhay desperately attacks the Marauders and Satchel must decide whether to abandon Abhay or fight alongside him to survive.
"LUNGS" Credits:
Starring: Ilia Jones, Anoop Desai, Rajeev Rajendran, Sam Gerwick, Jason Bailey, and Luke Goodson
Director: Kieran Moreira
Producers: Shawn Lamons, N.C. Jones, and Kieran Moreira
Writers: N.C. Jones, and Kieran Moreira
DP: Kyle Messina
1st AC: Ryan Shackleford
2nd AC: Hunter Davis
Gaffer: Ethan Messina
Key Grip: Brett Abramsky
Grips: Jonathan Serxner & Pasha Gray
Sound Mixer: Piper Kessler
Boom Operator: Monique Velasquez
Key Make-up Artist: Ashley Watts
Wardrobe Stylist: Marcelle Traboulsi
Wardrobe Assistant: Laura Walters
Set Photographer: Tyler Northrup
Production Assistant: Usman Abbasi
Weapons Designers: Stephen Bode & Ryan Orr
Mask & Lungs Designer: Tyler Jackson
Stencil & Tattoo Designer: Eric Kramer
Graphic Designer: Nick Burns
Editor: Kieran Moreira
VFX Artist: Jingky Gilbert
Matte Painter: Derick Childress
Composer & Sound Designer: Joseph "Sloe" Slawinski
Colorist: Kyle Messina
Concept Artist: Meredith Laxton
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[@NegativeSplitFilms]

Hi DUST community! This is Kieran, the director, co-writer, and editor of LUNGS. Hope you enjoy the film. Let me know if you have any thoughts or questions!

[@chaheralimhadji3964]

It's amazing

[@chaheralimhadji3964]

Need gold

[@joshuadavidflanagan]

Hi Kieran, Cool film. Curious what your production schedule and budget for this project looked like. What was the process of collaborating on the script like?

[@esterl.7683]

Hey there! May I know some difficulties you encountered during the shooting days and how you managed them? Cool film!

[@NegativeSplitFilms]

@@joshuadavidflanagan Hey Joshua, thanks for your questions! We spent over a year in pre-pro planning in anticipation of filming. We all have day jobs so spent a lot of time planning and finding weekends/day off that would work with cast and crew. Filming took 4.5 days. Our film qualified under the SAG-Micro agreement so the budget was under the 20K limit. I came to NC Jones, my creative collaborator, with an initial script draft back in early 2020. She's a much better writer than I am so she really helped flesh out the characters and dialogue. Otherwise, it was very collaborative as we worked through many drafts. I appreciate you watching the film!

[@EyeOnSciFiPod]

Very well done. Love how this post-apocalyptic world shows that compassion doesn't entirely go out the window when society collapses. Such a unique take with a very human story at it center. Bravo to the entire production!

[@NegativeSplitFilms]

Thanks for all the support along the way!

[@iliajones6242]

Can’t say how much this film means to me. Great work to the entire team! Satchel’s story really locks me into the world 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@NegativeSplitFilms]

You are fantastic in the film, Ilia! It was a pleasure working with you! - Kieran

[@friscostreetstories5403]

I really need to watch sequels to EVERY Dust film, short and long.

[@NightOwl2335]

Terrific short! Chilling, stays with you long after.

[@NegativeSplitFilms]

Thank you for watching!

[@6677srevihs]

dust has been on a roll

[@ericchild8845]

Well done! Finally some new sci-fi from Dust! This one is disturbing, which is what makes it good. Also helps that it includes two of my most favorite subjects, sci-fi and baseball. 🤓

[@NegativeSplitFilms]

My co-writer, NC Jones, is a baseball fanatic. Part of convincing her to work with me was introducing the baseball plot line into the story! Thank you for watching.

[@gloriabeckley7464]

Don’t rush a knife

[@lacywalker9617]

🤩🤩🤩 so good, can’t wait for more!!

[@seenofruit]

Well done!

[@durasaxon5131]

Excellent. Entertaining. Scary. Dystopian. Excellent Mini- Film. _____ ✝️ _____

[@rudetraveler]

awsome love you guys doing this lowbudget doingit

[@cynthiaj.wagner1807]

Bravo ✌️😎😁🥰

[@neogeo3193]

"I love dust!" I first found it on regular TV as soon as the digital tuner came out. Anyways everybody I asked did you ever see dust never got a yes, this show really deserves more credit and viewers than it gets. Besides I was trying to find a episode I liked if anybody could help me. It starts out in space with three people real old guy real young guy and two middle-aged in a really run down space vehicle with homemade parts to keep it going and the young man has this plaque that shows a privacy I guess. I could never find it if anybody knows the one I'm talking about please give me a reply. Thank you

[@knock3x]

I was trying to find it for you, but Is it 3 people or 4 people? "it starts out in space with 3 people" or "real old guy (1) young guy (2) and 2 middle aged" = 4? Also, is there another ship nearby with a girl in it?

[@neogeo3193]

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner little boy old man middle-aged to middle-aged people and a rigged up gravity machine and it goes out and they put it back together . Yeah they're in a spaceship and there's like a map with clues

[@freethinker4331]

Amazing ❤❤

[@scotthultin7769]

112 👍's up DUST thank you for sharing 🤗

[@NegativeSplitFilms]

Thanks for watching, Scott!

[@shadow2010shadow2010]

Very good enjoyed watching

[@slybri5751]

Awesome ❤️🌏⭐💚

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

Excellent. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe. Everyone!

[@gnorman8852]

Very good. Great start to a good story, already drew me in!

[@rudetraveler]

TY

[@squirrel_bait]

Thank you for the warning. I truly appreciate it. I wish more folks would do that for me. Sorry I can not watch it but I can indeed listen to it and I did. Thumbs up from me!

[@NegativeSplitFilms]

Thank you!

[@michaelarmstrong9617]

All pretty believable up to the Jeep running in the post apocalyptic future... Like THAT could happen! Should have used a Toyota, lol. That would have been believable!

[@NegativeSplitFilms]

Haha, I'm sure there's 10x the amount of Toyotas running around in the LUNGS universe. Thanks for watching our film, Michael!

[@markmattimore592]

2:22 Nerf Zombie Strike Hammershot

[@daveb8853]

Great acting & directing - super well done short all the way around!

[@NegativeSplitFilms]

Thanks for your support, Dave!

[@frankwafer6919]

👀Awesome,thank you!👆👆💯👌👍!

[@yosemitedan7457]

In baseball terms, strike one that things were so green yet toxic. Strike two that a baseball could be thrown with a velocity by that person that would be especially harmful.....against a catcher's mask. Strike three that the vehicle was freshly detailed because we know bad guys make sure their ride is emaculate...in a dystopian future. As you walk back to the dugout, head hung in shame you hear strike one against the next batter though they haven't stepped up yet....because whatever that was there was no science ergo not sci fi.

[@alanw737]

This is a good one.

[@NegativeSplitFilms]

I appreciate you watching! Thanks so much! -Kieran

[@armynation31B5V5P]

Grabbed me from start to finish. And adding baseball was new. I liked it.👍

[@NegativeSplitFilms]

Thanks for the kind words! Appreciate you watching

[@devindelpalacio4031]

Brilliant! Leaves me wanting more 👊🏽

[@NegativeSplitFilms]

Thanks for the kind words. We appreciate you watching our film!

[@TimmyMoza]

Very good. Enjoyed the story and characters.

[@user-qy6lp3cg5v]

Actually, air & water have drastically improved in the developed world the last sixty years, and the trend continues.

[@adrianwilson7536]

Sorry but I can't forgive the tight cornrows in a survivor more then a few days plus after 'the event'. Sure a guy with scissors and a shaver might keep to a routine if they have a base of operations, but cornrows need a second person willing to spend a hour plus on even that short stuff with some product. You might as well have people in starched and pressed suits as realistic as that is

[@edyak6280]

Great story telling. Thanks.

[@beingsentient]

Quite good. Thanks.

[@grasping4straws817]

Excellent work. I’m looking forward to the sequels.

[@bigsarge2085]

👍👍

[@missnikki8927]

Reminds me of the last of us, this would make a great game

[@NegativeSplitFilms]

Thanks! We definitely looked at the world of Last of Us as partial inspiration. A LUNGS game would be fun!

[@bobalicious2696]

Waited 11 min to hear: "I was born into this new word." "But I didn't survive it being a victim." So says the Black woman. The only thing you left out was making her queer.

[@RMR1]

The plot is somewhat predictable and the last 2 minutes feel rushed, but the writing and acting over the course of the film make up for it. A taut, sparse drama that weaves past and present as one, "Lungs" starts off as your typical humans-are-terrible-people eco-pocalypse thriller -- a genre that, in all honesty, I could use a break from. But it quickly pivots to a tale of grit, guilt, redemption -- and unresolved conflict. The writing draws you into the film's apocalyptic world with realistic dialogue and well-paced suspense. The acting is well above-average for a project of this size and scope. And other than the climax having a ragged cut-and-paste feel to it, the film is shot and edited beautifully and the directing is outstanding. 4.1/5

[@NegativeSplitFilms]

Thanks for your review and for watching the film!

[@thechroniclesofshango]

A guy tries to help but you stab him?

[@kylekataryn3454]

Fear does strange things

[@MrAgmoore]

She was hallucinating - they plied her with drugs.

[@Jerbies_Kimmers]

Sounds pretty relevant to todays society😐

[@mauibill7233]

How many times are we going beat to death the post apocalyptic theme here? This is getting so old, I can't watch this crap anymore. How about something uplifting for a change?

[@thebigdawgj]

>anoop desai That's not a name. That's something you say when someone sneezes.

[@AngelLili1]

Pls explain

[@mrheisemberg2]

Nice, the human race does its best in the worst situations and its worst in the best, but as Pearl Jam sing - Do the Evolution and also Depeche Mode anyway We know we know we will be ghost again

[@NPCONSULTING247-jy3pz]

There will not be any postapocalypse and its a boring plot to polarize it a million times

[@0neIntangible]

It shows laziness on the part of screenwriters to develop intriguing characters in interesting storylines.

[@NPCONSULTING247-jy3pz]

@@0neIntangible Influence of Hollywood

[@fonziebulldog5786]

There sure will be and there have already been several in Earths history.

[@NPCONSULTING247-jy3pz]

@@fonziebulldog5786 How is your definition of it?

[@ej2796]

If there is a apocalypse (wich I'd say the odds are at the very least decent there may be at some point), then there will most likely be a POST apocalypse, as there will almost certainly be survivors. And knowing humanity and the things people are capable of doing when they are starving or resources are scarce, a post apocalypse will probably not be a very good time to live in. So...a dystopian portrayal of it is actually the most realistic of all options.

[@jeremymahrer1832]

SAME OLD SHIT HERE, NOTHING TO ENGAGE WITH, sorry.

[@DaleWheeler]

Gloom and doom. 👎 Let's see something more uplifting.

[@geko-hw1iq]

ThAnkyou ,, EVERYBODY BREATH THROUGH YOUR NOSE WITH MOUTH'S CLOSED WHILE WATCHING RHIS TS i RECOMMENDED,,,, TRUST ME!! WRitier an diRector u tw3o,,

[@timg9212]

Yeah, no. The whole "oxygen is scarce, the environment is toxic" falls apart when you are literally surrounded by trees and shrubs. Not a very realistic portrayal of your concept when you are literally surrounded by green. The entire ecosystem of the planet Earth would collapse for such a thing to happen, so your "bs factor" is way too high right away. Can't stay in the movie at all.

[@cobleymj]

Have fun in paleoecology 101

[@timg9212]

@@cobleymj Complain about my response all you want. It's the same problem that happened in "After Earth". Immersion is thrown out the window and the art/talent/entertainment value drops.

[@85justsomedude]

So you basically stab a guy and leave him to die just for trying to help you then you bring a baseball to a gunfight. Oh yeah , " bLaCk eXcElLeNcE". Also how does the air not affect them after they leave?

[@tranquility001]

ARE YOU TRULY THAT STUPID? Can you imagine what it's like being in a post-apocalyptic dystopia where evil is often disguised as kindness? What the hell is your "black excellence" comment supposed to mean? You do realise this is not a reflection of any race as THIS IS NOT REAL LIFE AND WRITTEN THAT WAY. (As if white people have never done anything horrible in movies🙄) Your last comment, however, I'm onboard with 🤔