Two brothers tragically separated after a destructive childhood accident - one becoming a relentless police officer, the other a rising crime leader - find themselves on a collision course to reunite as family loyalties are challenged and fates align in midst of a major arms deal in modern Los Angeles.
THE BRAVE ARE FIRST BROKEN
Brothers in Arms is a short film that’s meant to introduce a feature film story. The story explores broken family and compromised relationships, strained by separation and extreme circumstances. The meaning of brotherhood evolves, when contradicting loyalties test that bond.
Fate sees two men with separate duties to authority collide in the most personal way.
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A crime saga that treads upon burdened relationships, Brothers in Arms projects its themes through deeply felt emotional discovery. Two brothers grow up together, and are separated due to tragedy. Through distant and disparate upbringings, both realize different lives, becoming police and criminal. The short film explores the meaning of family and its uncertain redemption when mired in violent contradiction.
The narrative honors meaningful drama through unwavering conviction to character and story, drawing inspiration from powerful, seminal films like Michael Mann's Heat, Martin Scorsese's The Departed, and Gavin O'Connor's Warrior.
The short film introduces the greater themes of its underlying feature story. A drama and thriller, Brothers In Arms weaves poignant, visceral cinema for its audience. Relationships plot action, and the fragile bonds of those in play deliver suspense and emotion. A cinematic story that tells from the heart and tugs at the same.
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Police and Criminal ~
Mirroring Characterizations
Police and Criminal
Fates Locked In Step
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There's timely examination of police conduct and authority in society at present. Scrutiny follows the impact of emotion and judgment in policing, and how subjective influences can frame one’s call to duty.
This short film features enmeshed characters as a juxtaposition for the unique parallels and realities of police officers and the criminals they chase. The characterizations and conflict imbue how both sides of the law are inevitably intertwined despite operating by different codes. Police and criminal are helplessly in step of each other, and the constant pressure of surveillance and pursuit causes degrees of conflict. For all involved, duty is most ever to clan, but the oath is survival. These heavy concepts are further explored in the underlying feature film screenplay.
Some rise by sin, others by virtue fall.
So it is with brothers.
ABOUT ACTOR|WRITER|PRODUCER
JORDAN CHARLES
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Jordan has devoted nearly a decade to develop Brothers in Arms as an original feature film. The completed Brothers in Arms short film is a stand-alone narrative, but also doubly serves as a snapshot introduction to a greater feature film, where the Los Angeles setting and conflicted characters of the larger feature film screenplay are given origin. This is merely the beginning.
Inspired by personal family division and his disparate immigrant heritage, Jordan created Brothers In Arms for audiences to draw feeling from the familiarity of family, its eventual breaking, and those marginalized to represent our complicated, ever assimilating world. With fellow producer Courtney King and co-director Ibrahim Nada, Jordan hand-selected a cast and crew of rising and experienced film professionals with the drive and penchant for gritty, authentic feature filmmaking. After 3+ years, Jordan and his team are proud to present the short film, borne from a diversity-laden production team from a dozen+ countries, and several minorities and women heading/co-heading multiple departments.
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A SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity actor, Jordan commands lead and supporting roles in independent and studio films. Often cast against type, his proclivity for complex characters sees him occupy roles of extreme range; recent film performances have seen him portray law enforcement, military, substance-addicts, revolutionaries, killers, supernatural beings, and characters trapped in futuristic timelines. Jordan is a triple-citizen of the USA, Canada, and the European Union, and an alumnus of the Meisner acting technique at the reputable Baron Brown Studio for the Dramatic Arts in Santa Monica, CA, and Margie Haber Studio in West Hollywood, CA.
A Forty Under 40 recipient, Jordan is a strong advocate of building community inside the acting profession and out. He is active in industry advocacy for the arts, Screen Actors Guild Foundation programs, and environmental sustainability causes.
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OFFICIAL WEBSITE: actorjordancharles.com
SCREENINGS
EUROPEAN FILM MARKET (EFM) SCREENING
BROTHERS IN ARMS
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FEATURE FILM PRODUCERS & STUDIOS:
Development inquiries re the Brothers In Arms feature-length screenplay and feature film
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The producers of BROTHERS IN ARMS are undertaking development and financing discussions for the feature film with all interested parties in 2024.
Film development executives and representatives are invited to inquire as follows: