I saw BURNT in Texas at the Gulf Coast Film Festival and was pleasantly surprised. It is about an abused twenty-year-old old who is from the city and gets sent to a ex-foster care facility in the mountains. I did not even know they had these kinds of places, but I discovered they do all over the country. They are used to house and help people that aged-out of foster care, 18 year-olds with nowhere to go -- besides the streets. This particular place in the film, called St. Bonnies, also houses rescue animals (dogs, cats, horses) which the screenwriter and directed, Lucia Apicella, intermingled nicely in the story. Apicella showed subtle parallels between the ex- foster kids and the discarded animals. The cast was mostly newcomers with a few recognizable actors here and there. It was not a high budget film, but the cinematography, the production value and the look of the short was really good. BURNT did win an award at the Texas festival, too.
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