WHAT IF YOU COULD GO BACK TO BEFORE?

“A mesmerizing masterpiece…” - Short Films Matter

“Goldman excellently carries us through his mystery revealing certain surprises along the way. The final revelations are haunting and very sci-fi, and it all ends in a Hitchcockian fashion.” - Total Film

“It’s an ode to Goldman’s directorial and writing skills that we get to witness what a wholesome multi-starrer can actually achieve.” - Indie Shorts Mag

A darkly comic head-trip, CLOSING TIME is a short about the drug of memory: the sliding doors that led to where we are now, and the times where despite our best selves we fixate the doors we left closed. This film is embarrassingly personal, an ode to faded relationships that still give me inexplicable nostalgia. And few songs feel more binding to memory than Semisonic's “Closing Time”… the anthem to our fucked-up college reunion story.

WRITTEN/DIRECTED BY: Russell Goldman

PRODUCED BY: Jake Katofsky, Liz Maupin

STARRING: Caleb Foote, Terry Hu, Demi Adejuyigbe, Samantha Bartow, Alyssa Limperis

PAST SCREENINGS

LA SHORTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (OFFICIAL SELECTION), July 23rd, 2023 at the Regal LA LIVE in Los Angeles, CA

ATLANTA UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL (OFFICIAL SELECTION), August 5th, 2023 at the Limelight Theatre in Atlanta, GA

FLICKERS’ RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (OFFICIAL SELECTION), August 13th, 2023 in Providence, RI

POPCORN FRIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL (OFFICIAL SELECTION), August 19th, 2023 at the O Cinema South Beach in Miami, FL

IDLEWILD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (WINNER - BEST SHORT FILM), August 26th, 2023 at the Paradise Valley in Detroit, MI

MIDWEST WEIRDFEST (OPENING SELECTION), March 3rd, 2023 at the Micon Cinemas in Eau Claire, WI

CATALINA FILM FESTIVAL (OFFICIAL SELECTION), September 20th, 2023 at the Avalon Theatre in Santa Catalina, CA

PRESCOTT FILM FESTIVAL (OFFICIAL SELECTION), September 21st, 2023 at the J&LL Performing Arts Center in Prescott, AZ

HORRORIGINS (OFFICIAL SELECTION), September 30th, 2023 at the Galaxy Theatres in Tuscon, AZ

HIGHLAND PARK INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (OFFICIAL SELECTION), October 6th, 2023 at the Historic Highland Theatre in Los Angeles, CA

ATLANTA SCI-FI FILM FESTIVAL (OFFICIAL SELECTION), October 6th, 2023 in Atlanta, GA

TALLGRASS FILM FESTIVAL (OFFICIAL SELECTION), October 7th, 2023 at the Orpheum Theatre in Wichita, KS

INDIGO MOON FILM FESTIVAL (OFFICIAL SELECTION), October 13th, 2023 at the Cameo Art House Theatre in Fayetteville, NC

BROOKLYN SCI-FI FILM FESTIVAL (OFFICIAL SELECTION), October 15th, 2023 at the Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn in NY

HOBNOBBEN FILM FESTIVAL (OFFICIAL SELECTION), October 21st, 2023 at the at the Fort Wayne Cinema Center

WICKED REALM FILM FESTIVAL (OFFICIAL SELECTION), October 27th, 2023 at The L in Horseheads, NY

NIGHTMARES FILM FESTIVAL (OFFICIAL SELECTION), October 29th, 2023 at the Gateway Film Center in Columbus, OH

LAKE COUNTY FILM FESTIVAL (OFFICIAL SELECTION), November 4th, 2023

FILMQUEST (OFFICIAL SELECTION), November 5th, 2023 at the Velour Live Music Gallery in Provo, UT

SPECULATIVE FILM FEST (OFFICIAL SELECTION), March 28th, 2024 at Bowlero South Seattle in Tukwila, WA

FANTASPOA (INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE), April 11th, 2024/5pm at the Cine Cult Victória in Porto Alegre

POPPY JASPER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (OFFICIAL SELECTION), April 14th, 2024/2pm at the Barn at Mission Farm in San Juan Bautista, CA

BEESTON FILM FESTIVAL (OFFICIAL SELECTION), April 27th, 2024/2pm at The Arc Cinema in Nottingham

EASTHAMPTON FILM FESTIVAL (OFFICIAL SELECTION), May 3rd, 2024 at E-Media in Easthampton, MA