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This year’s recipient of the Summer White Lynch Memorial Award, which goes to a finalist of the High School Film Competition, was Wesley Wang for his dazzling “nothing, except everything.”, which harnesses immense creativity in detailing the existential crises befalling young graduates as they go about entering a world that is literally on fire. This film’s awkward date scene in which two teens fumble for the right words, only to spout a series of expertly timed verbal fragments, is a marvel in itself.

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Meanwhile, “Nothing, Except Everything,” a short film from writer-director Wesley Wang will have its world premiere at the Oscar-qualifying Indy Shorts International Film Festival on July 22. The film stars David Mazouz (Fox’s “Gotham”) and Lily Chee (Netflix’s “Daredevil”) and is produced by Oscar-short listed producer Scott Aharoni (“Leylak”).

The film follows Miles, a high school senior wrestling with college applications, fleeting relationships, and is wrestling with a growing sense of nihilism. In his haze, Miles begins fixating on the number seven, leading him through different points in his life in a desperate attempt to find a disguise of order in all the chaos.

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