Aftermath - 30 minute short film

Months after a nuclear explosion destroys New Orleans, Don and his children must find more food and safety.
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[@marthagillespie14]

Fantastic beginning. Very cute little girl actor. Love the houseboat situation. The deepest emotion beautifully conveyed. This is a very impressive movie. Satisfying ending.

[@hayliemia3225]

Martha Gillespie thank you for calling me cute 😂🤤

[@apachewolf2147]

I thought so too

[@elizabethgalvez7192]

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[@elizabethgalvez7192]

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[@kenminten7958]

@@hayliemia3225 YOU WERE CUTE BUT A L L THE MEN "ALL" WERE PATHETIC NOT BASED IN REALITY NO SURVIVORS NONE PERIOD INCLUDING LITTLE GIRL WHAT WAS PAST FANTASY IS SOON TO BECOME REALITY DONT TAKE NANO/TECH SHOT !!! AND L I V E B GOD BLESS THIS WORLDS PEOPLE

[@TrentGillham]

thanks, my girlfriend, Jessica, and I co-directed this. Just giving credit to her as well.

[@chrisvoa]

You all nailed it!

[@SasquatchGirlSandraRainsDeBusk]

This... no words can say just how impressed I am with the entire thing! This was so good even from the start and I hated that it ended so soon. Great story line, great acting and just a blown away effect overall! Thank you!!

[@bharatiya804]

Where are you now?

[@TrentGillham]

I'm glad you liked it :D . I made this back when I was 18. I'm 21 now, and am working on something even better!

[@christinenelson6823]

Can't wait! You did a great job! Really well thought out! Keep up the good work!

[@tracycole4655]

After 7 years on KZbin and only 31k views!?!? I'm really surprised.. was a very good short film, good acting and realistic situations. Highly recommended!

[@CollaboratedCinema]

Why hasn't this received more view. It's a bloody masterpiece.

[@tuffymiller9846]

I realize that this was done nine years ago. I am absolutely floored at the quality and acting and overall masterpiece of an independent short film. Wow

[@fishernz]

If he'd looked into the flash like that, he'd have been blinded.

[@alexbarcelo5094]

fishernz first thing u thought

[@fishernz]

@@alexbarcelo5094 - yes it was. Had some training years ago.

[@glenndavis479]

Then you would also know that being that close to the shockwave they would in all reality be dead also and not to mention the fallout that would have settled upon them in the coming days.

[@donlove3741]

He's alligator man put up his eye shields.

[@craigd9058]

Depends on how far away it was. There are a few people who directly watched the Trinity test and were fine. Richard Feynman for one.

[@DianeHasHopeInChrist]

Okay....already I am annoyed at how "pansy" this guy is. Hell, save the propane for heating in winter months. Cook over a flame fire. Fish everyday, and save canned food....or dry your fish/deer catch, into jerky by using the sun...voile'...no need for refrigerator. Society is extremely spoiled and useless. As a woman...I know how to hunt, fish and dress my kill, cook it over an open fire, purify water. True survivors do not need to haul hundreds of pounds of canned food & gallons of water. LEARN to do without, so you can become resourceful in a catastrophe.

[@simoncampbell3144]

Cool , so you will be hunting all the fresh food full of radiation, while this chap is living happily off the canned stuff , good luck dear

[@Lowkey_ID]

I wondered whether these post apocalyptic scenarios were foretelling or preprogramming, then I saw a small town in Virginia the day after a Derecho came through and knocked power out. I was driving through and needed gas, only one gas station had power during this hot and humid summer morning. It hadn't even been half a day and people were at each other's throats already.

[@BradfordGuy]

Never give up...never, as long as there's breath in your lungs. This was an awesome production!

[@TrentGillham]

im glad you liked it! please spread it around we need more views!

[@janconradie7101]

I hope you make many more videos in this style, I am going to visit again. As with all films there may be imperfections, but this one I enjoyed more than ANY other I have seen in months, and I've seen many. Thank you for portraying a survivor story of people who did not by coincidence have a PhD in post-apocalyptic science (like all the commentators seem to have), a story of Christians being a family in the worst situation, with a satisfying but explicable end. Thank you!

[@bernardweaver2416]

Such a great film...it definitely deserves a full length.

[@angelitaluna2087]

WOW! What a bunch of great talents, I loved the story and could feel the aches of each of the characters. Brilliant director, actors and playwright. Overall i give it a 10. Hope you can do more films, you are amazing, honestly! 💕

[@ashleytodd5939]

I am watching this in 2021 and I will still say that this is a good movie I hope you all have been able to succeed in your dreams of creating even greater movies I hope you all have kept up your creativity and I'm hoping to find more movies from y'all

[@brojack3570]

Great film. Great in 2011, still great in 2018.

[@nigelclarke6786]

Good movie, plot developed well and acting was ok. Nice ending too.

[@MSC-Songwriter]

Very well done for this genre. I do find it hard to imagine noone on the set has ever actually siphoned gas with a "piece" of water hose.

[@bluecanary1note]

In movies like this, people are always selfish and look out for themselves or their own family. In a real situation, surely it would make sense for people to hang together and help each other out. That's how we got through the Stone Age.

[@mandielou]

You mean the great depression? Lol

[@IDreamOfSerenity]

You conjured a haunting glimpse at a shattered post apocalyptic America. It's been an entertaining experience. Thank you for sharing your work.

[@jefftheriault7260]

For a movie like this, that portrays the immediate aftermath of an attack, you need to have actors who are willing to run themselves down by fifteen to twenty percent below the weight they started at to get the effect of the ordeal they're going through. Good work. Thanks.

[@fuzzybobbles]

I watched this and thought it was a professional documentary filmed from a first person perspective. Then only after I read the comments and realised it wasn't a big budget commerical project. Totally awesome. Beautifully filmed and excellent effects. The exploding fuel can when shot should have been bigger just for the shock impact. But totally excellent acting from all the cast. Being a photographer myself I was especially impressed by the cut scenes and atmospheric shots.

[@prepost2494]

Wow. I could really feel the desperation of that man. And the end. I loved.

[@russellonearrow2154]

Decent script, decent acting. I kept wondering why they just didn't catch fish to eat.

[@Mrbeardo42]

Excellent job! Keep it up! We need more movie staff like this in today's cinema!

[@midnight_prepper]

I think this was more realistic of all the post apocalypse short films that I’ve watched. Alot of them are really good. He put alot of thought into it. Very well done! I can see life living out this way soon.

[@danielhanawalt4998]

Tough situation. I can think of some things I might have done differently than the father did, but he and his children survived in the end. Thanks only to a stroke of good luck, being rescued by some good people. This makes a good argument for being a prepper. You never know what may happen. A good chance the people that rescued them were at least a little prepared for possible disasters. Which are many. Great film. Very well acted and made.

[@TrentGillham]

thank you for spending the time to watch it

[@TrentGillham]

not every nuke is the same, there are strategic nukes. Not all of them are MASSIVE, END OF THE WORLD nukes. You have to have strategically sized nukes varying in destructive power. It's unintelligent to have 50 square miles of nuclear contamination if your goal is to destroy one small city.

[@TrentGillham]

@Chixxie666 thanks! I am glad you liked it. Show it to all ur friends. We need more people to see it!!!

[@TrentGillham]

just to answer your question, the school was lit naturally. There were skylights in the ceiling, which was what you mistook for artificial light. As for the grass being cut, you got us there, we didn't have the money for a greens department....and we couldn't force people to stop cutting the grass for weeks. That's something we couldn't do with a few hundred dollars.

[@sangkang6294]

Most vehicle is anti-siphon now. The only way to get gas out is either inject air pressure in to it or get access to the gas tank by drill or unbolt the seats...

[@brotherskeeper2598]

or remove the hose clamp from the rubber fuel hose or vent tube right beside of it and simply siphon from there but not necessary on that early 90s bus he was siphoning from

[@TrentGillham]

thanks! the halo movie was really just a little project compared to Aftermath, we had real actors for this and extras. It was alot more complicated, but fun.

[@AZ_actual_voter]

Just saw this for the first time (2024) -- GREAT JOB!

[@ColTravis]

I just found this movie tonight, Excellent Job!!!

[@TrentGillham]

thanks man, it was a huge improvement over my Halo films. This one we actually had the resources to make it good.

[@GrippingLipsFishing]

Looks like you took 'em to Delacroix. A lot of New Orleans already looks like a bomb hit it.

[@MrDaniel488]

Great job! This was amazing to watch!

[@spaceman081447]

How did Don go from being collapsed unconscious in a field to waking up in a camp?

[@ODSTx92]

This was a very well made film, I have yet to see any others like it on KZbin. Very well done, I hope to see films of this caliber in the future, I shall compare them to this one in their use of quality, style, and effects

[@grampypantsdonovan3188]

pyroclastic event equals instant death,second part radiation exposure.they would all be bacon bits other then that 6 out of 10

[@hepburn118]

Where did it say it's a documentary? Ever hear of artistic licence and entertainment?

[@Codycking]

Great film loved the acting and story very impressive, amazing content keep it up. Subbing now.

[@ArtisticInteligence1]

Excellent indeed! Speechless.....i stopped watching Gravity after 15minutes...., you proved its not about money to be able to speak out .i would even dare to say '' silently'' very loud the message, will share your work on my facebook. Any more ideas for a movie? Greetings from Croatia :)

[@TrentGillham]

artistic intelligence Thank you! And I have many ideas, but my funds are limited. :/

[@brucevaughn2886]

Very well done. Works from a number of angles. Doesn't explain everything ... doesn't solve everything ... which is good. Leaves it up to the viewer to think things through.

[@JeanLeDragonOFF]

This is a really great movie buddy. Just saw it and i must say that, imho this is the greatest

[@SpoonySkink]

im in tears. Insanely well done. Holy shit.

[@swampwitch6133]

Very nice job on this movie, I agree with the others i'd like to see it be expanded on, another 30 minutes or so you could have something here that would be a full lenth movie you might be able to interest someone in, The "gangs" sadly portrayed here and also in the movie Dystopia will likely be what it will be like for those that do survive the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. It will create lots of paranoia and mistrust and turn people against each other. Perhaps that is something you could use to expand on a little cutting away from the family to the "gang" to show more of this side. Just a thought.. Very well done though! It as a great job and especially on a limited budget that even as someone else said many high budget films don't even capture.

[@gojake]

Holy cow, this is remarkable filmaking. I absolutely love this and will share this film with a lof of my PA groups. I'm a writer and reminds me of my novella, Wasteland. Very cool, If you wanna read a copy, I'd be glad to get you one. It's on Amazon. Just message me and I'll get you one. Great job!!!!!!

[@deejo3021]

Man would be blind looking at nuke

[@darthvader5830]

+Deejo also incinerated XD. if he even survived anyway ( very unlikely) he world get radiation sickness and die. hahah this was a great story though.

[@jonclarkson6793]

It would of literary melted his eyeballs seriously lol

[@csn6234]

@ge st still be blinded

[@corysartin4558]

If you are far enough away a nuke won't blind you but would i gamble on it hell no of look away so i can preserve my eye balls in the even me and my wife will survive the initial impact

[@Beelzebububble]

Yeah. The moment I saw that, I clicked away from the stupid channel.

[@TrentGillham]

thanks man we all worked hard on this and are trying to make bigger movies. Wish us luck.

[@shelleyzuelich9099]

Good luck thanks for a good hearted side too much death and hatred isnt needed.i wish my dad was still alive . He would be the same way .

[@peterhulse1064]

This guy looks pretty well fed for an apocalypse dad.

[@TrentGillham]

Thanks, we need a lot more views. Spread it around to everyone you know!

[@TrentGillham]

10 days to film it and around 8 months for editing, sound, vfx. I am in school, so I mainly worked on it during the weekends.

[@blessedamerican3541]

When I lived off grid with a generator, the first thing to go was the refrigerator. What would you need it for in this type of event?

[@gangsterkitty418]

its sad how people can be so mean and rude to each other once everything is gone thank god for the laws which keep people from showing their true colors

[@CollaboratedCinema]

And I shall. How much time did it take to make this?

[@Kris.Tagilala]

amazing work i love it the editing the camera shots the sound, everything was awesome keep up the good work and i look foward to seeing more of your work your halo video was great and this is even better good job.

[@fatfreddyscat5173]

Enjoyable vid. A good representation of the possible "complications" concerning postpoc parenthood. Thanks for your efforts in making it available.. d:^)

[@katastar221]

wonderful job.

[@TrentGillham]

@ps3consolewar absolutely! we are trying to get this movie out there. I am glad you liked it. I'd love for you to put an ad on your site. What site is it btw?

[@TrentGillham]

@SteelHyaena thank you so much! We have been trying to get our film seen more so you posting it would be great!

[@DiabeetusBoy]

Great work with the filming aspect, I loved how the shots were filmed. But your editing needs serious work bro, look up some tuts, they will really help. But I don't want to distract from my main point, which is that this was VERY well done.

[@MrKyleDD]

the ending was so sad, my god. good job, im subscribing

[@Radioman909]

When Good Men do nothing, Evil Prevails. These Gangs would be hunted down by the People's Militia and held accountable for their actions.

[@chechatonga9502]

Yeah ....they wouldn't prevail in my AO .

[@hairdryermanson6955]

Ok

[@maggroo]

"People's Militias" are more likely to evolve into this gangs than anything else, it's not like they are actually trying to develop means to produce goods in mass scales so that no one has to take it by force, they would be the ones exercising strength, like they've preparing for anyways, and that simply is not enough to organize people in desperate situations, so in no time they would be the ones needing to be held accountable. Stop storing guns and start learning how to plant stuff.

[@GaMeRdUdE786]

Please make more PLEASE!!!

[@woowoowoo246]

Thank you for this wonderful movie. Beautiful!

[@1shooterm]

Amazing what you can find on KZbin nowadays, thank you.

[@GrahamMcNallie]

good work.

[@TrentGillham]

@jeffbengtson we actually were aware, we tried to locate one of the old metal gas container, becuz that is more plausible to explode, couldnt find one in time so we just stretched reality a bit lol.

[@donnawhetstine1045]

good movie,ty for sharing..😊

[@SilentWatcher594]

Survival situation,,,reluctance/hesitancy can get you terminated. Could have happened in this movie. The movie, however, was quite good and I enjoyed it...thank you.

[@shanemarlow9229]

I like it first time watching in 2020 March 14, very good and emotional movie something that can really happen very good movie it just shows people prepare ahead of time

[@buddybrier]

Love it. Super well done! Keep it up.

[@danielgrubb9668]

They would have died of radiation poisoning in the first couple weeks.

[@martinsmith8417]

Like a tiny tree will save you from a nuclear attack!

[@jeffbengtson]

i love how there are a ton of comments criticizing the nuclear effects but no one is questioning the gas can exploding when shot. other than that, great film. thanks

[@mandielou]

I've seen many people say that. I don't know how you aren't seeing those comments. Lol this short was unrealistic from the start. Some things would happen the way they portrayed but the big stuff wasn't. This movie wasn't even possible without the unrealistic beginning which makes the entire movie redundant in my opinion.

[@TrentGillham]

they were far enough away from the bomb for that not to happen. Look into the hiroshima bombings. Some people who lived a mile or so away from the point of impact lived their full life. Yet they were still thrown by the blast wave. watch this video on youtube, go to the 6:30 mark and it will explain. search: Hiroshima Nuclear (atomic) Bomb - USA attack on Japan (1945)

[@TrentGillham]

@BrokenEvolutionMedia yeah I watched your vid. When are you filming more? How long is your script?

[@CollaboratedCinema]

Interesting. Great work. I enjoyed the camera work and the VFX. Anyways, thanks again for this nice piece of art.

[@martinsmith8417]

Like hiding behind a tree will save you!

[@csn6234]

Well, it saved them. Proven wrong, beotch.🤣

[@joolsfreeman4359]

CSN sure it did...well you can try that if you like, but give me a cave or even a sewer system to jump down anyday.

[@GaMeRdUdE786]

Ok Your movies are unbelievable!

[@carolynolsen132]

I’m surprised they don’t show people eating every plant, weed, stick, tree, tree bark, etc. There was plenty of vegetation where he landed the boat.

[@ramonantoniobennett-ryuuke6301]

This is pretty good! Wasn't a remake made with T-2's Edward Furlong? I saw that one last year

[@myrrdin63]

True there were a few things that may not have been very probably but that aside....Postulating a number of variables I think they did a decent job. The survivors camp was a little out there though.

[@KrosanBeast315]

1:24 - 1:26. "behind the tree, behind the tree"... ARE YOU KIDDING?! What good would a tree do against a thermonuclear shockwave?!

[@andrewbarnett84]

Its just a blast that lasts a short time, in Japan people behind small walls and trees survived the blast.

[@shunawestern9153]

What a beautiful ending. 🥰🇬🇧👍

[@jasoncentracchio4836]

Man, that was a great movie. Well written and excellent acting. I am going to subscribe. Very impressive.

[@snoopu2601]

Very good story and a good ending to the short film. To end up with a group of survivor's good choice to leave the boat house to find other's.

[@PureEvil616]

what program did ya use for the vfx. I wanted to make a zombie movie a while back but lack of resources made it never happen.

[@MrWhydoineedaname]

amazing job @TrentGilham when is the rest of it ?

[@jeannefrye2128]

ok....maybe I am crazy, but you are on a houseboat...no food...GO FISHING! Are you kidding me???? Crabbing anything??? I don't get it???

[@soelvfaks1]

fish will be dangerous, they live in radiated water.

[@csn6234]

You're quite stupid

[@joolsfreeman4359]

soelvfaks1 everything will be radiated including canned food, where do you draw the line? There is a grain called pearl barley, it actually picks up radioactive particles in your body and you crap them out, add some to every meal, fish would be no worse than anything else you,d find.

[@TrentGillham]

yeah, I wish we explained his decision better, he left because his son was pushing him to leave, his son and daughter we restless out in the swamp, and losing hope. He was trying to give them hope. We didn't show this as well as I wanted to.

[@jimroberts62]

Horribly thought out. Refrigerated food and enough candles for United States Army is not a realistic post apocalypse situation.

[@Chixxie666]

W O W. A-MAZ-ING. This was a complete masterpiece. Good work, nice acting! One of the best shorts movie i have ever seen! :) Make another one!

[@TrentGillham]

@xXDeathClutchPwnXx im glad you liked it! Spread it around. We need more views man!

[@dianevitale1214]

One of the very best. Unlike the typical where all it is ..is young adults savagely killing each other, equipped with usually heavy artillery. Killing, in many cases, for no reason. One pretty much the same as the other. This one, I enjoyed. Wish it could have been longer.

[@12wildwill]

im kinda comfused was only new orleans bombed if so why wouldnt they just go some where else ?

[@markkrause4407]

Volume is all over the place. Food galore in those swamps . I know it is representing night but infrared filming light allow the rest of use to see the picture . I liked the survival location , unique to me !

[@mattalleman4415]

I know this a little late, but pretty good 👍

[@tinge1954]

The man had a shotgun and a pistol. why not hunt for food, instead of going to rob somebody else`s food?

[@corysartin4558]

In a time like that you would do anything to feed you wife and kids i know I would to ensure my wife eats