Fresh from the festivals, Your Lucky Day, is a light-hearted comedy that deals with… no, actually it’s a modern tragedy with a mix of dark humor thrown in. The story centers around a convenience store and its seemingly random mix of customers: the old man, the young expecting couple, the cop, the thief, the indifferent cashier. When one customer wins the $156 million lottery drawing, the dynamics of the store change—greed takes hold. Turn after turn, we watch things turn badly for the one holding the winning ticket. Fate sets off a series of circumstances that, in the end, seem to benefit no one. A message about the dangers of greed? I don’t think so. Your Lucky Day is an experiment in how far you can stretch a series of bizarre actions and still hold a thread of rational sanity.

Your Lucky Day is not for the faint of heart. Dan’s film is dark, vulgar, and unearths some of the deep, disturbing thoughts we all harbor. The characters are rational people thrown into a dire situation forced to confront the ultimate dilemma: moral judgement against self-preservation.

Dan’s film has been touring festivals for a few months now. I first caught it at the Seattle International Film Festival where it screened in the same program as my film, The Thomas Beale Cipher. See Dan’s motion design work at Oh Hello.