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Side Effect
A psychological thriller about a doctor who becomes her own diagnosis.
Director
Executive Producers
Marty Lang (Writer)
Cast
Duy Beck, Julia Boykin, Renny Grames, Boston McConnaughey
Recognition
IndieX Film Festival — Outstanding Achievement Award (Thriller Short, 2021)
For Buyers, Programmers & Educators
Trailer
Logline
A greedy psychiatrist over-prescribing the wonder drug Panacetlyne mysteriously begins exhibiting the drug's side effects herself.
Written by Marty Lang and co-directed by Renny Grames and Andrea Shreeman, SIDE EFFECT is a tightly wound psychological thriller that uses a single clinical relationship to interrogate the moral architecture of modern psychiatry. Starring Duy Beck, Julia Boykin, and Renny Grames, the film moves from prescription pad to paranoia with the patient precision of a clinical study — and arrives at a portrait of a profession whose remedies have become indistinguishable from the conditions they treat.
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Recognition
Festivals & Awards
Awards
- Winner — Outstanding Achievement Award, Thriller Short · IndieX Film Festival (2021)
Official Selections
- IndieX Film Festival
- AFIN International Film Festival — Nominee, Best Short Film (2021)
- AFIN International Film Festival — Nominee, Best Emerging Female Director (2021)
Audience Profile
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Identifying the audiences for whom this film will land hardest — the rooms, classrooms, communities, and partners we actively program toward.
- Genre & thriller audiences
- Medical and bioethics programs
- Film schools
- Women-in-film showcases
- Mental-health advocacy organizations
Educational Value
- ◆Bioethics and pharmaceutical ethics curricula
- ◆Medical humanities and narrative medicine programs
- ◆Psychiatry and clinical psychology training contexts
- ◆Screenwriting and genre craft seminars
- ◆Women directors and DEI-focused film studies
Rights Availability
"A taut, surgical thriller with a moral pulse."
"Grames and Shreeman direct with clinical precision and human heat."
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