Shoot, Shovel & Shut Up
COMING SOON
The Clifford family hopes to start a new life by selling their dilapidated, impoverished farm. But when the discovery of an endangered bird on the property threatens to collapse the sale, the son Andy must decide whether to make the bird’s presence known or to shoot, shovel, and shut up.
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Produced with MPI Original Films and selected through the MPI’s Short Film Lab 2021, this film touches on the impact of bad incentives in conservation law.
Starring Casey Simpson (Nickelodeon’s Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn), Ryan Kitley (NBC’s Chicago PD), and Becki Hayes (ABC’s Gideon’s Crossing), featuring Chris Richards (Pandemic Trilogy).
Read more at https://thempi.org/film/shoot-shovel-and-shut-up/
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Production Co: MPI Original Films, NODEHAUS
Written & Directed by: Tran Hoang Calvin
Executive Producer: Della Levine, Kristi Kendall, Gerry Ohrstrom, Nick Reid, Lana Link, Rob Pfaltzgraff
Associate Producer: Nicole Roewe
Produced by: Tran Hoang Calvin, Chris Edgar
Andy: Casey Simpson
Ray: Ryan Kitley
Mary: Becki Hayes
Businessman: Chris Richards
Director of Photography: Yuki Soga
1st Assistant Camera: Emily Kaminski
2nd Assistant Camera: Jaricxel Ramirez-Mata
Gaffer: Triston Centretto
Grip: Zsaknor Powe
Assistant Director: Jacob McElroy
Unit Production Manager: Jordan Han
Production Design: Zachary Thomas
Art Assistants: Isabella Werschky, Sarah Kutchinski
Armorer: Ring of Steel Action Theatre and Stunt Troupe
HMU: Candace Lefke, Ashley Anderson
Sound Recordist: Lauren Ritter
Production Assistants: Grace Brady, Max Holt, Leah Eichenberger, Adam Schrems, Polina Andrushchenko, Madison Bluemel
Set Photography: Matthew Denicola
Set Videography: Ayden Case
Editor: Tran Hoang Calvin
Assistant Editor: Polina Andrushchenko
Colorist: Taylor Schafer
Sound Mixer: Ben Eggehorn
Composer: Scott A. Stevens
Footage of Kirtland’s Warbler by Benjamin Clock, Courtesy of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Macaulay Library
Filmed on location in Silverwood, MI and Grandville, MI
