The Adventure Golf Guy

The short film "Adventure Golf Guy" recently won the Independent Short Film competition at the Central Michigan International Film Festival. The judges (of which I was one) found it to be charming, genuinely entertaining, and quirky in the same vein as "Clerks" but sans the gratuitous language. The film follows a day in the life of the employee who manages and runs Adventure Golf. In short order, we are introduced to an array of characters who feel familiar, yet are unknown when they're introduced. The film uses archetypal characterizations but does so in a way that doesn't feel manufactured so much as simply revealed. The musical score, from several independent groups in Motown, fit the film well and provide an extra sense of the innate ingenuity of the writer/director. While the cinematography is more pedestrian, the film needs no fancy camera-work to sell it's story, doing so on charm along. The film is currently touring other festivals, and I heartily recommend seeing it if you are able.