Thanks to Couch Film Festival for awarding Mike Messier’s work on Many Keys – The Heartbreak Monologue with its Winter 2023 Best Writer Award in the 1:00 – 5:00 minute division.

You can see the whole short film, which doubles as a proof-of-concept video for Mike’s novel/screenplay/stage play A Distance from Avalon – When the Dying and the Dead Reunite right here:

Many Keys is another collaboration from writer/Director Mike Messier, Cinematographer/Editor Tim Labonte, and composer Tony Caramadre.

Jessica Carradero plays Heartbreak, one of the four central characters in the full story. The project was filmed in Vero Beach, Florida, edited in Woonsocket, Rhode Island with the score composed at Phattones Studios in Warwick, Rhode Island.

Heartbreak’s monologue is extracted from her dialogue in A Distance from Avalon. You can support the project by buying a copy of the novel (available in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle) right here: