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Sci-Fi Short Film Spotlight: TEARS IN THE RAIN (A BLADE RUNNER Film)

Tears In The Rain, the award winning South African sci-fi short by filmmaker Christopher Grant Harvey, is an unabashed love letter to the 1982 motion picture Blade Runner, and Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Set in Los Angeles in the latter part of the twenty-first century, the short stars Sean Cameron Michael as John Kampff, a mysterious law enforcement official who is tracking down a man named Andy Smith (Russel Savadier), who is suspected of being a replicant: an artificial being almost indistinguishable from humans.

With its haunting, 80s-inspired synthesized score, futuristic Los Angeles cityscape complete with flying cars, looming ultra-skyscrapers, and neon-haloed, grime covered streets, Tears In The Rain convincingly duplicates the dark dystopian aesthetic of Blade Runner.

However, the most important similarity to Blade Runner is the short's existential questioning of what it means to be human.

Watch the award winning Tears In The Rain here ...


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