Director Jay Jennings' short film, “THE DROWNING”, is a riveting, psychological drama that will totally absorb you with its haunting subject matter, as a young dad spirals downward into a deep depression after the drowning death of his son. 

                         


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SYNOPSIS:


 After spending a weekend with his 10-year-old son, a divorced dad visits his new girlfriend while the young boy goes swimming. Momentarily distracted by drugs, he neglects to notice his son is floating unconscious in the pool and later tragically drowns, despite his dad’s futile efforts to revive him.  

The dad runs into a street prophet on Hollywood Boulevard who tells him that Judgement Day is coming and the end is near. The dad does not understand what he’s talking about and breaks away from the prophet’s grip.

Some time later, while visiting and weeping at his son’s grave, the dad recollects some of the good times he had with him, but his last memory is of his son's drowning. Distraught and totally lost, he leaves the cemetery in a haze.

The next day, the dad’s nagging apartment manager demands the rent money or else he’ll call the police and have him evicted. Feeling that his life is strangling him, the dad tells his psychiatrist that his sessions aren’t helping him cope with the loss of his son and wants to stop seeing him. The dad later visits the park where he used to play with his son on the swings, as he slips deeper and deeper into depression. A local priest tries to counsel the dad, but it fails to give him any hope, let alone, the will to keep on living.

With his grip on reality slowly slipping away, not to mention, his unwillingness to accept his son’s death, the dad comes home one night and yells at God for not telling him why he took his son away. After splashing his face with water and trying to convince himself that he’s not crazy, the dad has another dream-like flashback of his son drowning. With no alternative in sight, he decides to join his son in death by committing suicide in a bathtub. With the blood from his his slit wrists dripping down the tub, the dad and son are once again reunited. playing on the swings in the park.

DIRECTOR'S BIO:

Director Jay Jennings is a graduate of Beverly Hills High School who learned the craft of filmmaking by working as a production assistant on many studio features in the early 1990s while attending Columbia College Hollywood and the Hollywood Film Institute. 
Jennings’ earliest foray into filmmaking began in high school, shooting Super-8 home movies with classmate Nicolas Cage. Jennings has also directed the Bad Lieutenant-like LOANSHARK.
A fan of films like MEAN STREETS and JACOB'S LADDER, Jennings' own cinematic style pays homage to those genres in subtle, yet memorable ways. 



CAST

The Dad...................................Rando Thomas
The Son...................................Jordan Tygh
The Girlfriend............................Stacie Richards Dail
The Psychiatrist.......................Mike Cahill
The Manager............................George T. Woods
The Prophet.............................Steven Brown
The Priest................................Bill Durrell


CREW

 Writer/Producer/Director...........  Jay Jennings
Cinematographer/Editor/Music....Jay Jennings
Sound Boom.............................Garrett Bradley
Unit Production Manager............Maria Alonzo
Script Supervisor.......................Susan Jones
Location Manager......................Tom Brewster
Make-up/Wardrobe.....................Elaine of Beverly Hills
Grip..........................................Carmine Vincent
Additional Music........................Kevin MacLeod
Additional Music........................Jason Shaw
Additional Music........................Garargo Garcia Jr.
E-mail all inquiries to: jenningsfilms@gmail.com

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