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The fallacy of escape is thinking it’s possible to truly leave the past behind. You can travel thousands of miles away and put years in between, but the stuff forcing you to do so never disappears. It marks you and shapes you whether you like or not, for better or worse. Ignoring to forget is just another way of letting it affect you because it remains the catalyst for where you are today. It caused you to pack up; it caused you to move forward without looking back no matter how difficult or scary doing so ultimately proved. We don’t know why Colby (Stephanie Brait) left home to travel the country as a drifter, hustling and lying her way into beds and money. We only know her pain.

It’s this struggle within to be better than who her mind says she is — that person her mother refuses...

Director/writer: Michael Maney. Meth is a short film of twenty-five minutes from director Michael Maney that puts character Nikki (Stephanie Brait) on a drug fueled train to murder and vigilante justice via external, mysterious forces. Currently on the film festival circuit, with a stop in Cincinnati shortly, Meth is an anti-drug film with a bigger message than the simple slogan "just say no."...

Meth is another film that will play at the Newport Film Festival next week and although the film is classified as a fantasy, this short can easily be considered horror as talking mannequins steal the show. The film stars Stephanie Brait as Nikki and Nikki has a little problem with the powder. Initial promotional material shows Meth to be an eye-opener on the effects of heavy drugs and those readers with a love for film that includes a message can check out this flick April 26th. A few more details on the film are below with a link to the festival.

A synopsis for Meth here:

"Nikki (Stephanie Brait) is a crystal meth addict living a life bent on self-destruction. After a failed attempt to pawn an old discarded mannequin to support her drug habit, Nikki finds herself host to an unwanted guest with a most unusual request. As the...