Narrative Short Film · (2025)

Zoltar Speaks

A teenager, disillusioned with the world and people around him, receives a message from the famous amusement park fortune teller.

Filmstill - A closup of a ZOLTAR fortune ticket

A narrative short, made in response to a single prompt: if you could tell everyone in the world one thing, and they had to listen, what would it be?

The answer arrives, as these things do, from a glass box on a boardwalk.

Credits

  • WriterMason Ember
  • DirectorMason Ember
  • ProducersRegan Avery, Max Avery Lichtenstein
  • EditorsMason Ember, Regan Avery
  • CinematographerRegan Avery
  • MusicMax Avery Lichtenstein
  • CastMason Ember (Teenager), Max Avery Lichtenstein (Voice of Zoltar)

Press

  • 2025 — Silver Key, Scholastic CT Regional Art Awards.