Ameliorate (Make Better)

My first feature-length film, a completely improvised project that started with a short lighting experiment and ended as a full-length narrative feature film. Skipping the development and pre-production phase and heading straight into production, the project took nine months to complete, running from August of 2021 into April of 2022, finally releasing on April 22nd. Ameliorate (Make Better) is free to watch and enjoy, forever. Additionally, the project has been released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, meaning anyone is free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, as well as remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, with the only catch being to credit me.

Thank you to everyone who helped with and supported this project.

~ Joel

Credits

Written and directed by Joel Watt

Written and produced by Nathan Robertson

Camera operation: Joel Watt, Nathan Robertson, Keith Radford, Tess Howard

Character design: Tess Howard

Score by Jim Couroux

Starring Joel Watt as 'The Writer'

Evan Lange as 'Walter Hayes'

Clayton Gilson as 'Monty Smith'

Zane Hagen as 'The Driver'

Nathan Robertson as 'Cody Davis'

Keith Radford as 'Mike Richardson'

Emerson Braun as 'Connor Farrier'

Featuring Rick and Sally Edginton