THE ORGY

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY SAM BARON

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A heartbroken guy throws caution to the wind and goes to an orgy.

ABOUT OUR FILM FUND WINNER

Sam Baron is a writer and director based in London. A former 2017 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund winner, his short films have been viewed 6 million times online. He also won the Academy’s Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship and has been on the Brit List twice. He has written for the TV shows CHLOE (BBC/Amazon), LOCKWOOD & CO (Netflix) and THE UNDERTOW (Netflix); has developed original TV projects with Netflix, BBC and Sky; and has written feature scripts for directors James Marsh, Scott Z. Burns and Alice Seabright. Since THE ORGY, he has made two other short films starring BAFTA nominee Amit Shah: TALL DARK AND HANDSOME and BIG EARS.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

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Film Festival (Awards)

2019 London Short Film Festival
2019 Emden Int’l Film Festival (Winner, Best International Short Film)  
2018 Encounters Film Festival
2018 Austin Film Festival
2018 Aesthetica Short Film Festival
2018 Oslo Independent Film Festival (Winner, Best Comedy Short)
2018 Underwire Festival
2018 FlickerFest Int’l Short Film Festival
2018 Interfilm Int’l Film Festival

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