That Boy Across the Street
Synopsis
Brilliant young teen James Evens's newly created invention is a big secret: it’s a device that allows him to teleport large distances in a short span of time. It’s an invention so classified he’s hiding it from his parents. Upon using the device, Evens learns that his new creation is physically harming him. While trying to fix that flaw in hopes to research a newly discovered planet, he realizes there’s a larger threat to his findings: a protective father and paranoid neighbor.
Meet the Filmmaker
Harvey Pullings II
Writer/Director
A native of the south side of Chicago’s Chatham community and Princeton Park, Harvey Pullings, Jr (born Feb. 14th, 1986) is an independent filmmaker, photographer and writer. A graduate of Columbia College Chicago, and Moraine Valley Community College, his thematic preferences in cinema are focused on perspectives of the “common man’s turmoil," the struggles of identity, the effects of technology, as well as race relations and violence. Pullings grew up in a household of religious, film and music-loving blue collar workers.
A middle class upbringing made his perspective of inner city life a humble and warm viewpoint, with an acknowledgement of obstacles inherent to the progression of people of color in America.
His first major project, the short film To Those with Good Intent, was accepted into four festivals, domestically and internationally - winning the Audience Choice award at the 2017 Chicago International Reel Shorts Film Festival, as well as being screened around the city for varying speciality events.
