About this submission
"An abusive relationship ends when you finally wake up and see what’s going on." Lead actress, Ellie Condello, once explained to me, "Your partner is an unfamiliar person. They're unrecognizable." Making this film, we asked: How can you tell if your relationship is healthy while you’re in it? Is there a right way to love someone? How do our fears mutate love into something dangerous?
Swallow attempts to answer these questions by exploring one woman’s awakening, perseverance, and survival and how her partner's possessive love, caretaking, and fear of abandonment drive him to become her greatest threat.
Creator
Aaron Bryce is an emerging filmmaker and theatre artist trained at The Kanbar Insitute of Film & Television and The Classical Studio at Tisch School of the Arts, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and The Denver Film Society. In 2018, Aaron was a nationally ranked performer by the National Speech and Debate Association. Recent directing credits include On The Line (short film, written, directed, and starring, exp. 2025), The Waco Tapes (theatre, directed, 2024), The 39 Steps (sight-specific theatre, directed, Crash Test Theater Co., 2024), Waterloo by Brason Jones (music video, directed, edited, and photographed, 2024), Swallow (short film, written, directed, edited, photographed, 2022). He is also an actor, last appearing in Sprawl at SoHo Playhouse and Tilly Birdbones at Teatro Latea. www.aaron-bryce.com @blu_ogden more...