The Oates' Valor is a short film written and directed by Tim Thaddeus Cahill. Cahill's first film is a coming of age

Coming of age

Coming of age is a young person's transition from childhood to adulthood. The age at which this transition takes place varies in society, as does the nature of the transition. It can be a simple legal convention or can be part of a ritual, as practiced by many societies...

 comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 of a son's conflict with his demanding father. This 14 minute color piece was filmed on Super 16 mm film

16 mm film

16 mm film refers to a popular, economical gauge of film used for motion pictures and non-theatrical film making. 16 mm refers to the width of the film...

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Synopsis

Teenage Boyson Oates (played by Jordan David) conflicts with his demanding father (played by Jack Moore). After an unsuccessful attempt to follow his fathers's orders, Boyson runs away from home, but is lured back for a reconciliation by one final parental act of appeasement.

Reception

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

. It has been featured at the Silver Lake Film Festival

Silver Lake Film Festival

Silver Lake Film Festival ran from 2000 to 2007. It was a 501 nonprofit organization established to provide a showcase for cutting-edge independent film, music, digital, and other arts in Los Angeles, California. The Festival was held annually at various venues throughout Los Angeles’ Eastside,...

, the Nantucket International Film Festival

Nantucket Film Festival

The Nantucket Film Festival is a film festival founded in 1996 to promote the cultural awareness and appreciation of the art of screenwriting in the world of cinema. Nantucket Film Festival screens a world-class program of independent, studio-produced, foreign, documentary, and short films in every...

, Small Potato Short Film Festival, and the Dereel Independent Film Festival.

It will be a Competition Short at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival

2007 Cannes Film Festival

The 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the sixtieth, ran from 16 to 27 May 2007. Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights opened the festival, and Denys Arcand's The Age of Ignorance closed...

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External links

• 2007 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL LINE-UP from Film Threat
  Film Threat
  Film Threat is a former print magazine and, now, webzine which focuses primarily on independent film, although it also reviews DVDs of mainstream films and Hollywood movies in theaters. It first appeared as a photocopied zine in 1985, created by Wayne State University students Chris Gore and André...
  
  online
• Clip from the Sundance Film Festival
• Epistrophe Films
• Indiewire
• Matt Barber
• David Rom