Esmeralda

2018
13m

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For her documentary thesis, Patty Yates follows the quirky Wilbur Goodnight as he embarks on a romantic quest to profess his adoration for his grade school crush at a local poetry slam.For her documentary thesis, Patty Yates follows the quirky Wilbur Goodnight as he embarks on a romantic quest to profess his adoration for his grade school crush at a local poetry slam.For her documentary thesis, Patty Yates follows the quirky Wilbur Goodnight as he embarks on a romantic quest to profess his adoration for his grade school crush at a local poetry slam.

Directors
- Rachel Emerson
- Paul Petersen
Writer
- Paul Petersen
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.5/10

YOUR RATING

Directors
- Rachel Emerson
- Paul Petersen
Writer
- Paul Petersen
Stars

3User reviews

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Trivia
To lower the budget significantly of the film, the filmmakers decided to shoot it in the vein of a documentary to avoid extra lighting costs and multiple camera angles.

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Featured review

10/10

Wonderful and warm love story

I've seen this short film several times at three different film festivals and fell in love with this story of... love. Take a quirky character like Wilbur Goodnight, an unrequited love story of a childhood crush, a mockumentary; and wrap it all up in a cleverly delivered, beautifully shot, funny and warm short film and you have Esmeralda. If you watch films to feel good, then you'll love this film. This short film "documents" the student-film efforts of a young woman named Patty. Her "film within the film" follows our "hero" Wilbur Goodnight, who is on a mission to find his childhood crush and surprise her with his admiration, at a poetry jam. It's funny and heartwarming, and best of all... entertaining on multiple levels. Congrats to the film-makers who expertly executed the mockumentary genre in a new and unusual way!