Age Recommendation/Content: preteen - adult; mature themes & symbolisms

Set entirely in a whimsical backstage, a host of curious pantomime characters proceed to tell a tale of a peddler who offers happiness in the form of shoes. But horrid consequences await anyone who puts on the shoes, as the peddler turns out to be the devil himself, in an age-old story of temptation, redemption, and the freedom that one Savior paid for on the cross. Despite its apparent simplicity, Rainbow Shoes is one of YC's darkest and most powerfully subversive stories, as well as our most "experimental film" in tone and presentation.

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This film and NightWorld were the first two full films produced for YC Web in 2020. Rainbow Shoes falls into a unique category of viewership; though outwardly childlike and theatrical, the film is a dark, chilling allegory in the style of The Screwtape Letters, exploring deep, hard-hitting topics of identity, the devil, hell, temptation, and society's overt acceptance of sin and corruption.