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With a stroke of the pen, a stranger transforms the afternoon for another man in this emotionally stirring short film by Alonso Alvarez.
Alonso Alvarez Barreda won the NFB Online Competition Cannes 2008 (featured previously at Neatorama) with the short film Historia de un Letrero (The Story of a Sign). Link -via Viral Video Chart
http://adage.com/garfieldtheblog/post?article_id=110104
I would rather see hundreds of shorts like this than some dark, angst-ridden, self-indulgent piece of "art" that might be a masterpiece of cinema or technical achievement, but as cold and barren as the middle of Antarctica.
"hark" and "Ty" -- if you like this, you'd enjoy Chaplin's "City Lights" a great deal.