The Milky Way
Short narrative - Comedy - 2022
Writer | Director
Synopsis
Paige will do whatever it takes to give her newborn daughter the very best.
The Film
Festivals
Screenings
• Lake County Film Festival • November 2-5 & 10-15
• Lake Charles Film Festival • 3rd place, Short Narrative Category
• Foothills Film Festival • Winner, Excellence in Comedy
• Fort Smith International Film Festival
• The Magnolia Independent Film Festival
Cast
Lauren Cox is an actor, writer, and director. She’s the founder of Trail House Pictures, a Memphis-based production company. She’s a multiple Top 10 Memphis Film Prize filmmaker. Her films have screened at numerous film festivals, earning several awards and recognitions.
Lauren Cox, Paige
Everett Anderson is a veteran of the stage and screen and is well-known in the Memphis filmmaking community. He began acting at the age of 15 and has been seen in a variety of theatrical, film, and commercial productions. Everett is also a talented writer and filmmaker.
Everett Anderson,
Jared
Ketrick “Jazz” Copeland, The Evangelist
Ketrick has worked as an Actor, Producer, Videographer, Director, Writer and Editor for several major television and film markets. Copeland's most notable films include Timothy, Ruined: Twice Blind, Deposit, The Smith Firm, Ryde of Die, Rondo, Spirit of Love, Big Mike, Brick's Gambit and the Sci-Fi television series Inner Dimension. He can also be seen on TV shows Fatal Attraction and For My Man.
Poster
Director’s Statement
I love being a parent, but it’s such a roller coaster of emotions. Few things in life can fill you with such wonder, dread, worry, terror, love, and pride like being a parent can. So, I definitely feel a strong connection to any story pertaining to the job of parenting.
I remember that first night after my wife and I brought our first child home from the hospital. Neither of us got much sleep. As a matter of fact, we didn’t sleep much at all over the next four months. It’s all a hazy blur, to be honest, but I do remember that strong sense of responsibility I had and the feeling that I would do absolutely anything to provide for and protect that little human. Now, fourteen years later, my wife and I can laugh about all the experiences we’ve had as parents of a newborn, even the challenging ones.
The topic of parenting is so universal. Even if you’ve never been a parent, you’ve no doubt heard the stories and understand just what lengths parents will go to in order to provide the very best for their children. By making The Milky Way I’m reliving my own past as a new parent while paying tribute to parents everywhere who sacrifice so much for the care and well-being of something so small and vulnerable.
I want audiences to smile, to laugh, and to sympathize with characters who are authentic and relatable. Parenting three children has meant so much to me over the years and this project serves as the intersection between two of the most important things in my life - my children and my love of filmmaking. And I think it’s important to make comedies right now. Audiences need the escape and I want to be the one to make them laugh.
-Clint Till
Crew
Written and Directed by CLINT TILL
Producer • AUGUSTA CAMPBELL
Director of Photography • ROBB ROKK
1st Assistant Director • MONICA SUMMERFIELD
Art Director • DAWN TAYLOR
Sound • JESAIAH BURNETT
Script Supervisor • CYD TRICE
Hair and Makeup • LAYNE THOMAS
Grips
NATHANIEL BULLARD
ETHAN HUGGINS
LEWIS JENNINGS
Set Photographer • KAITLYN FLINT