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Monty and the Runaway Furnace

Joe Taranto
United States, 2016, 32 min.

In English.
This film is family friendly.

AIFF Award Winner:
Special Jury Award for Visual Storytelling

A kind, old maintenance man is in love with the furnace that powers the factory he works at because he thinks it's his deceased wife and he has to save it from the tyrannical new owner who wants everything replaced especially the furnace that reminds him of the previous owner, his dead father.

Director's Statement

The story for Monty and the Runaway Furnace has humble beginnings as its main character is based off of one of my childhood neighbors who was a kind and loving plumber working well into his 90s but losing his wife entirely too early in life. Grief is a powerful emotion effecting everyone different so what happens when two people's grief lead them to fight over the same object? That is the question at the heart of our film and we hope you enjoy it.

Category: Fantasy.
Themes: Relationships.

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