Capsule

13 minutes · Dark comedy

Directed by Dani Kind

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The turnout

10Crew passesEveryone credited on Capsule gets their own free month of PREVO to hand out, and the cast and crew get access to Filmmakers Academy, the film school co-founded by cinematographer Shane Hurlbut, ASC.

25Weekend Read SpotlightCapsule gets its own piece in The Weekend Read, PREVO's weekly film magazine.

50Behind the ScenesDani sits for a Behind the Scenes interview, published and promoted.

100PREVO PROVENThe film earns the PREVO Proven laurel, permanently.

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The story

After 18 months in the loneliest depths of outer space, an astronaut stoically performs his mission duties in spite of the fact that he lost his crew.

He’s also lost contact with ground control. In fact, he fears he’s lost his mind.

But just when he’s lost all hope, he finds an unlikely friend who brings an unexpected opportunity for salvation.

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Director’s statement

Dani Kind

Director and executive producer

In some of my darkest moments, I have burst out laughing at the cosmic joke of life. That’s why the tragi-comedy balance in this story is so beautiful.

Dark themes bubble beneath the playful innocence of the characters and the setting with a deadpan-pathos that bring to mind Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Jacques Tati, Roy Andersson, Noah Baumbach, Buster Keaton, and Charlie Chaplin.

In the end, I believe that filmmaking is simply about making people feel less alone in the dark – and I hope that is what this film does.

Plays Anne Carlson on Workin’ Moms, and directed an episode of its seventh season.
Capsule was her debut as a director.
Her short Debra, starring her Workin’ Moms co-star Juno Rinaldi, was made at the Canadian Film Centre.
She has also directed episodes of We Three Queens.