Short film

Don’t Pick Up
2026 · 15 min
A tight, uneasy short that coils dread around office drudgery, making paperwork feel like a haunting.
- Directed by
- Ben White
- Starring
- Kento Morita, Jose Eduardo Ramos, Bernardo Tiaba
- Overview
- Tye, a young aspiring junior attorney working on behalf of a Texas oil company, is tasked with falsifying documents connected to a wrongful death lawsuit. However, Tye quickly learns the victim, a worker who drowned in crude oil, haunts the case and now him.
- How it feels
- Dark, tense, eerie and bleak. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Guilt, corruption, death, justice
- Content
- Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Ben White
- Starring
- Kento Morita, Jose Eduardo Ramos, Bernardo Tiaba