QUARANTWEEN - A COVID HALLOWEEN SHORT
By Daniel James McCabe
QUARANTWEEN is a short film following a lone Trick-or-Treater on his journey through a city under lockdown. It was conceived as both a tribute to those lost to the pandemic, and as a celebration of all the love and resilience still present in our streets. This film is dedicated to kids everywhere who've had to adjust to the many difficulties of these trying and tumultuous times. The score, performed by Eleanor's Brendan Morris, is an interpretation of Lou Reed's classic "Halloween Parade", which was released in 1989 as a tribute to the many New Yorkers lost to the AIDS epidemic.
About the Artist
Daniel James McCabe
Daniel James McCabe’s short film SHADOW PUPPET was a finalist in the 2019 Amazon All Voices Film Festival, and won the Award for Outstanding Drama at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival. His first stage play THE FLOOD won the Award for Excellence in Playwrighting in the 2014 New York Fringe Festival. A native New Yorker, McCabe was raised in a working class section of Queens, statistically the most diverse urban area on the planet. He spent his formative years as a firsthand witness to the difficulties faced by poor and lower middle class people from a broad range of ethnic and racial backgrounds. His work is concerned with themes that transcend factionalism to advance the cause of universal human dignity, with a particular focus on the challenges faced by working people everywhere.