Plot

An evaluation of youth growing up in a retirement community and the issues that surface in beginning your life where most people go to die. The story covers a single day in the life of two groups whose only commonality is their youth and a chance meeting at a bonfire on the beach.—Anonymous

Where monarchs Die, is a short film project illustrating life in a retirement community through the eyes of its youth. Written and directed by Matthew Kalamane, the premise of the work is loosely based his own childhood, growing up in Pacific Grove, California. This is a town whose catch phrase is "America's Last Hometown", the average age of all persons is 71, and the worst crime ever reported is skateboarders hanging out in front of the coffee shop. As one would imagine, the community isn't in the slightest equipped to entertain its youth, and although its crime free and conservative establishment produces a seemingly perfect place to raise a family, the very nature of its elder majority find itself persecuting youth just for being what they are. Young. In the end, this film aims to show the awkwardness in beginning life in a place people go to die, and the undercurrent of misplaced rage that boredom, prejudice and constant judgement, no matter how innocent, its geriatric populous creates in simply resenting the next generation.