The Game | 5-Minute Drama

5 Minute student short film project for SAIT RTBN Television, © SAIT 2020

Synopsis: A fortune teller sits at a table with all her features covered in a mysterious veil. Some teenagers enter her space and ask for a reading, the fortune teller does a three-card Tarot reading for the teens – reading their past, present, and future. The teenagers are excited and leave the tent happy.

Afterward, a mysteriously shady man appears in the area; the fortune teller is not surprised and welcomes the man back. He takes a seat and suddenly appears as a teenager. The woman is still not surprised as they begin to talk about a game that they are playing.

The man, now appearing as an older man, wants to know the rules of the game this time, and the woman shuffles the tarot cards and deals out five cards to each of them. They begin to play their game of cards. Afterward, The man leaves, but before he leaves, he addresses the fortune teller by her name as Lady Death, and she addresses him as Father Time.

Starring:
Diana-Lynn Shaw as Lady Death
Jack Marchuk as Young Father Time
Jamal Alzubairi as Older Father Time
Ana Rice as Leah
Esther Kapinga as Samantha