Hold on Tight
- IMDb link: 36393412
- Genres: Fantasy, Short
- Director: Brigette ReDavid
- Cast: Alexis Abrams, Judy Anderson, Betti Bazemore, Kimberly Bowden and others
- Release date: 1 Apr 2025
- Release year: 2025
- Runtime: 33 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: quest adventure, fairy tale fantasy, prison drama, dark comedy, surreal comedy, romantic comedy, dramedy drama, dark fantasy, supernatural thriller, legal thriller
Plot:
Three short films written by Brigette ReDavid show that life is unpredictable no matter how well it's planned. In the dark comedy, Royal Flush, Mark seeks revenge after Jason cuts him off on the road. Down and out Mark tracks down Jason to kill him. When he meets Jason, Lady Luck draws Mark's final card. Winner of Best Film, Best Dark Comedy with several selections and festival placements. In the fairy tale fantasy, Princess Dahlia's Disconnected Fairytale, a spoiled princess takes a royal plunge into a forbidden world. Dhaleander is a world where people do nothing but shop and talk on their cell phones. They are instructed how to think in texts sent by the palace guards. Princess Dahlia is the most superficial of all. When she falls and her cell phone breaks, the princess enters an unknown world that smells like honeysuckle and clover. Cellphones don't exist and the bulldozers haven't paved it over yet. She meets Handsome Eugene, whose deaf, and discovers a quieter, greener world that she wants to lead her people to. But her fiance back in Dhaleander has other plans for Dahlia and Eugene. Winner of Best Concept with several festival selections and festival placements. In the noir, Loves First Bullet, Ms. Farrow plays a mind game with her lawyer. She's been accused of murdering her lover and hires Liam Scott to defend her. She tries to convince him that her lover killed himself in a game of Russian roulette. It's how they kept their love fresh. She draws Liam in to convince him she's innocent. Classic noir suspense, drama, flashback, stark lighting, with a touch of neo introduced through a colorful flashback. Several festival selections and festival placements. Though they all plan meticulously, the potential murderer, the spoiled princess who wants nothing more than to play on her phone and shop, and the accused killer who works to prove her innocence, learn that fate has other plans in store for them.