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A man faces his own death... | DEATH AND FAXES (Award-Winning Short Film)

Shot Caller Pictures

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Watch the trailer for our new short film SEEING CLEARLY here: SEEING CLEARLY (2026) | Official Trailer

DEATH AND FAXES is a dark comedy short film set in a mysterious afterlife waiting room.

A man wakes up with no memory of how he got there and is told he must complete a bureaucratic process to determine his fate after death.

An independent short film by Shot Caller Pictures, Death and Faxes explores existentialism, regret, and the absurdity of the afterlife through a tense and darkly comic conversation between a recently deceased man and his Demise Consultant.

If you enjoyed this film, you may also like our new short SEEING CLEARLY (link above).

Awards & Festival Recognition:
Winner – Best Short Film (Screen Power Film Festival), One-Reeler SFC
Finalist – Big Fridge IFF, Sandgrounder IFF, Vesuvius IFF
Official Selection – London Lift-Off, The Short Film Showcase
Honorable Mentions – London IFF, London-Worldwide Comedy FF

Credits
Written, Produced & Directed by Erbil Shaban
Production Company – Shot Caller Pictures
Jim Schafer – Dorian Simpson
Stanley Woland – Lester Cowling
Director of Photography – Richard Allen
Production Manager – Miriam Tovia Trejo
Art Director – Fatma Shaban
1st AD – Ella Spottiswood
1st AC – Fanka Georgieva
DIT – Deniz OznacarSpark – Lewis Brown
Sound Recordist – Oscar Crawford
Makeup Artist – Lauren Montgomery
Production Runner – Athena Christodoulou
Edit – Deniz Oznacar & Erbil Shaban
Colour Grade – Richard Allen

Camera rental – Spinning MirrorLighting/Grip/Lens rental – Shoot Blue

Music – Ambient Piano Loop by Peng Punker

Format – Ursa Mini Pro + ARRI Alexa XT + Atlas Orion Anamorphics

20 Comments

@shotcallerpictures Creator 7 months ago Pinned

If you’re new here, thank you for watching!

If this meant something to you, then you might also like our next short SEEING CLEARLY:
https://youtu.be/2pKTJYEiLhs

It’s a quieter and more intimate, and I’d love to know what you think.

@jacquelsimon4168 3 years ago

I think him not finishing breaking bad is more important the a philly cheese steak

@clasencoach 3 years ago

At least he’s stuck with a cute and joyful secretary for the next 600 years.

@carriespider8438 3 years ago

Your next client is coming… that must mean he has been there a while already😮

@BellaH9306 3 years ago

Such an interesting take on the after life. Just another day in the office, only you can’t escape the office until someone young and keen to impress comes along to replace you, inadvertently freeing you from the torment. So not so different from the office really.

@Bubba1960. 3 years ago

"You crashed, you burned, you died, you're dead" That delivery was perfect! Really enjoyed this. Thank you.

@kirstenwinch848 3 years ago

Phillips cheese steak: he used that as his order for his retiral meal...but actually cleverly used his meal choice as a way to bribe the guy to take his place. He's waited 600years for someone who wanted a philly cheesesteak to get out of purgatory

@Godrules1111 3 years ago

Living is a lifetime, death is only minutes in that lifetime. And we will do anything to hold on that lifetime, even in death.

@8BallMC 3 years ago

Very well shot, interesting concept. We need more short films in a world that has no time.

@henrimatisse7481 3 years ago

the first man's jacket was "timeworn". The point was be there for your loved ones. no matter how short

@pi4313 3 years ago

the solution to getting out of purgatory is to retire early - so just retire early?

@SMtWalkerS 3 years ago

Loved it. Death doesn't free from endless, boring, office prison. The waiting room reminded me of the waiting room in "Beetlejuice". Hell must be being stuck in the waiting room of the MVD!

@biglakejudy 3 years ago

Memento Mori Ah, the older I get the more intense life becomes.

@tonymarzocco8962 3 years ago

This was wonderful! I could see purgatory as that old PC computer with dial up & floppy discs. Not quite Hell there but certainly not a Mac Book Pro with 4K resolution.Heaven.!