by Travis Mills | Aug 29, 2012 | 52 Short Films in 52 Weeks, Current Projects
9 of 52: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the classical novel A Scarlet Letter, one of the founding fathers of American literature. Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe is about the power of word of mouth. You...
by Travis Mills | Aug 28, 2012 | 52 Short Films in 52 Weeks, Current Projects
8 of 52: Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado According to Wikipedia, The Cask of Amontillado is “set in a nameless Italian city in an unspecified year (possibly in the 18th century) and is about the narrator’s deadly revenge on a friend whom he...
by Travis Mills | Aug 27, 2012 | 52 Short Films in 52 Weeks, Current Projects
7 of 52: James Joyce’s Araby James Joyce’s Araby is a coming of age story about an Irish boy who goes through a loss of innocence. You can read the story here. Keep checking back daily for new story announcements and more from Running Wild Films. -Travis...
by Travis Mills | Aug 26, 2012 | 52 Short Films in 52 Weeks, Current Projects
6 of 52: D.H. Lawrence’s You Touched Me D.H. Lawrence is one of the most important British writers in history. Among many novels he wrote some short stories. You Touched Me, which tells the story of two sisters and a long-lost brother/orphan’s tension over...
by Travis Mills | Aug 25, 2012 | 52 Short Films in 52 Weeks, Current Projects
5 of 52: Stephen Crane’s A Desertion Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage, one of the most famous war novels ever written and still probably the quintessential Civil War book. He was also a writer of short stories and considered by literary scholars to...
by Travis Mills | Aug 24, 2012 | 52 Short Films in 52 Weeks, Current Projects
4 of 52: James Joyce’s An Encounter The second story in James Joyce’s collection Dubliners, An Encounter tells the story of “a boy–the narrator–and his friend Mahony taking a day off from school and going to the shore, to seek adventure in their...
