LIFE SENTENCE, was a short film I helped produce for the 2011 SXSW Make A Film In A (M.A.F.I.A.) Day Youth Festival. In those 24 hours, my teammates and I wrote, shot and edited this film and had it screened at the Austin Convention Center during SXSW.

After that, we submitted it into the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner where, to our amazement, it was selected to be screened there! Alexander Michael Rosales, the main actor and Director of Photography of the film, traveled to the festival in May of 2011 and represented it there.

LIFE SENTENCE follows the story of Marcus T. Quete (Alexander Michael Rosales) who has been incarcerated for the murder of a man simple known as "the Hero"(Landon McCampbell) . Detective Aaron Rodriguez (Irving Medina) is charged with telling him that he is going to be exetuted and to gain some information from him. He wants to know why? To see why he would give up his innocence to serve a Life Sentence.