2007 WINNER
POP FOUL
USA, January 2007
19:30, Narrative

A boy sees his father take a 'beat down' from a local thug on the way home from a Little League game. When they arrive home, the father demands the boy say nothing to his mother about the father's swelling black eye, but the two are caught whispering at the door before they are able to corroborate their stories. The mother presses them for information, and they coincidentally tell the same lie. Afterward, however, the father reprimands the boy for having said anything at all. Angry at the betrayal, the boy vengefully tells his mother the truth, only to be betrayed by her in the name of his father's pride. The boy's resulting rage culminates in the ultimate betrayal of the only friend he knows.

CREDITS
Writer/Director: Moon Molson
Short Story: “Boys’ Club” by Anthony Eleftherion
Executive Producers: Jennifer Handorf,
Geneva Molson,
Moon Molson
Producers: Jennifer Handorf,
Moon Molson
Cinematographer: David Jones
Editor: Paul Frank

CAST
Steven Clark, Sekou Laidlow, Danielle K. Thomas, Keith Bullard, Bo

Moon Molson was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and moved more than 15 times before settling in his current “home town” of New York City. He graduated from Dartmouth College where he received a triple B.A. in English, Film Studies and Philosophy.

Moon worked for years in the New York City film industry in both production and post, wrote spec sitcom pilots for independent producer Bill Philips (“The Complete Beatles”) and directed Off-Off Broadway theatre at the now defunct Acting Studio, Inc. (not The Actor’s Studio) as a member of the Chelsea Repertory Lab.

In fall 2000, Moon entered the the M.F.A. program in Film Directing at Columbia University's School of the Arts. In 2002 he won the prestigious Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Student Internship and was flown to Los Angeles to work in television commercials. While in L.A., he completed Columbia's Exchange Year in Cinematography at The Los Angeles Film School.

In summer 2004, he became an Instructor of Screenwriting and Digital Editing, and a Video Directing Mentor at The School of Cinema and Performing Arts (SOCAPA) in Los Angeles and The Berkshires. He currently resides in Harlem with debt, dust bunnies and roaches.

CONTACT
Moon Molson
moonmole@mac.com