Meeting Your Maker — HollyShorts Film Festival Review

Gregory J.M. Kasunich's Meeting Your Maker won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Short at the Dallas International Film Festival, and it's easy to see why. The film follows Otis (Jonathan Kite), a puppet from the beloved children's TV show Yappy Hour, as he experiences an existential crisis in the lead-up to the show's 300th episode.  What initially begins as a sharp dark comedy centered around a suicidal puppet gradually reveals itself to be a deeply compassionate, layered meditation on the creative process, purpose, and personal self-worth.