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Chowboys: An American Folktale (2018)

Name: Chowboys: An American Folktale
Director: Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, Steven Kostanski, Jeremy Gillespie, Conor Sweeney
Genre: Short film, Futurist Western
Released: 2018
Duration: 8 min
Cast: Matthew Kennedy, Adam Brooks, Conor Sweeney, Jeremy Gillespie

2018 · Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, Steven Kostanski, Jeremy Gillespie, Conor Sweeney · 8 min · Canada

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Three stupid cowboys are lost in the woods without any food on the coldest night of the year. Will they succumb to the cold, cannibalism, or the Christmas Spirit? Canada's infamous Astron-6 return to short form to challenge the very idea of storytelling. Grotesque. Absurd. Buñuel by way of Zuckers and Abrahams.

A 2018 title built around Short film and Futurist Western. Directed by Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, Steven Kostanski, Jeremy Gillespie, Conor Sweeney.

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