Live Action Short
'Fate Scores' explores themes of isolation, connection, and chance. Two strangers--a guitarist (Albert M. Chan) and an introspective young woman (Heidi Rhodes)--cross paths at an empty concrete bench. One by one, additional strangers join the pair on the bench--a distressed woman in a foot cast (Mary Niederkorn), an insecure jogger (Jonathan Vittum), a famished pregnant woman (Angela Gunn), an anxious businessman at lunch (Brian D. Evans), a curious child with an ice cream cone (Ben Katz), two quarrelsome women (Kandace Cummings and Katarina Morhacova), and a dignified collector of soda cans (Roxanne Y. Morse). Whereas the young woman discreetly observes the whirlwind of interactions between the strangers, the guitarist remains completely engrossed in fixing his broken guitar string. Despite their differing reactions to the activity at the bench, the guitarist and the young woman eventually discover they have something special in common.