''Echo'' is a 2003

short film A short film is a film with a low running time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of not more than 40 minutes including all credits". Other film o ...

written and directed by

Tom Oesch Tom Oesch (born September 27, 1980) is a Swiss filmmaker working in Hollywood, California. Biography Tom Oesch grew up in Rebstein, a small rural town in Switzerland. After his mother had taken him to see ''Jurassic Park'' at the local movie t ...

. It stars Haven Pell, Sean Le, and Armand Kirshman.

Overview

The short film tells the story of an American soldier’s grief, guilt, and descent into madness when he encounters a local boy carrying a mysterious package in the war-torn jungle of Vietnam. ''Echo'' was produced at the

USC School of Cinematic Arts The USC School of Cinematic Arts is an academic unit of the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles. With a history that dates to the first years of Sound film, talkies, the school descends from America's first ...

. It features

black-and-white Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of grey. It is also known as greyscale in technical settings. Media The history of various visual media began with black and white, ...

cinematography Cinematography () is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Cinematographers use a lens (optics), lens to focus reflected light from objects into a real image that is transferred to some image sen ...

by Kevin Oeser and a

film score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to ...

by Sasha Ivanov. In 2004, the film won at the "46th Rochester International Film Festival."

References

* 2003 short films 2003 films 2000s English-language films American short films Vietnam War films American war films 2000s American films English-language short films {{short-film-stub