SKYLAB is falling!
Pat Pecorella
USA, 2007
English
6 minutes

Produced and Directed by: Pat Pecorella

It is 1979 in Punjab, India, U.S. space station SKYLAB hurtles toward the Indian sub-continent. A young Punjabi boy, six-year-old Puneet, is playing outside and has just stomped on a frog. Now, as he listens to a radio broadcast about the imminent crash, he fills with dread that SKYLAB will strike his home and kill him and his family.

This charming story, inspired by true events, lets us be a fly on a cement wall as Puneet takes one step toward growing up.

Director’s Bio

Pat Pecorella has made twenty short films over the past nine years with many of them screening at U.S. and worldwide festivals, including Rhode Island International Film Festival. Pat has also developed three feature scripts/projects, with FOOTSTEPS (2007) being the first produced film.

Pat founded Pecorella Productions in 2003, dedicated to the making of Chicago-based independent films driven by strong narratives and committed to achieving high production values with small budgets. Trained in psychology and having worked in business for 25 years, Pat broke into the film world via a two-year internship at a local film company supplemented by professional classes in screenwriting, production and film directing.