Diminishing Returns

Still from “Diminishing Returns”

Title: Brain Dump

Year at FACFF: 2025

Running Time: 14 minutes 33 seconds

Genre: Experimental

Country: USA

Language: English

If not in English, are there English subtitles? yes

LOGLINE: $80 due today. Out of time and out of options, Ernesto keeps a positive outlook while he hunts the streets and dumpsters of LA in the hope of finding enough recyclables to pay for his daughter’s chemo treatment back home in the Philippines.

Director(s): Colin Whitman

Writer(s): Colin Whitman

Actor(s): Ernesto Bagayas

Director of Photography: Aleksandar Jovic

Editor: Alison Messinger, Colin Whitman

Music Composer(s): Anne-Sophi Marquant, Laurent Depla, Justin Portis

LOGLINE: $80 due today. Out of time and out of options, Ernesto keeps a positive outlook while he hunts the streets and dumpsters of LA in the hope of finding enough recyclables to pay for his daughter’s chemo treatment back home in the Philippines.