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The Golden Key

Length: 20 min.

Age Recommendation/Content: preteen - adult; themes about death

Release: 2024

Synopsis:

Take a journey into the world of Scottish author and minister George MacDonald, and explore the supernatural in a powerful allegory of the unseen spiritual world that surrounds us every day. Presented as old 1940s film stock, and set in the German coutryside during World War II, a host of peculiar characters lead you into a fantastic dieselpunk world at the end of the rainbow, in a symbolic short film about death and eternal salvation.

One of a series of YC films based on the extraordinary works of classic author/minister George MacDonald! Though You Connection may not agree with all aspects of George MacDonald's personal theology, he was nevertheless a groundbreaking pioneer in Christian fiction and influencer of later Christian writers such as C.S. Lewis, Oswald Chambers, and J.R.R. Tolkien, and we are thrilled to produce updated versions of his works for a brand new audience!

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Dieselpunk is a retro-futuristic style that fuses the styles and images of the 1930s and 1940s with fantasy/sci-fi elements, as depicted in the pulp magazines of the era. This included the fusion of rocket packs and other technological innovations of the day with real-life depictions of Nazis, World War II, etc. Dieselpunk is part of a series of retro styles including steampunk, atompunk, etc. None of these actually have anything to do with "being a punk"; rather, it simply refers to the skewing of many styles into one unique style.

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