Short film

Sweetwater, Texas

2025 · 22 min

A tense but warm family road trip that crackles with generational and ideological friction, leavened by wry humor and a sense of place.

Overview: A queer environmental journalist and her gun-toting grandma lock horns on their drive out to Sweetwater, Texas, where their cousins host the world's largest rattlesnake roundup.
How it feels: Tense, warm, satirical and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Family, environment, identity, politics
Content: Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
environment
identity
politics
trauma
Places: road trip
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Directed by: Kaytie Nielsen, Nick Nielsen
Written by: Kaytie Nielsen, Nick Nielsen
Starring: Isabel Pask, Kymberly Rockwood Nielsen, Brian Villalobos, Nick Nielsen, Victor LeRoi McCowan
Runtime: 22 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English