Jack DiFalco

Jimmy is a quiet, heavy-set high-school kid who is constantly tormented by the resident school bully Miles and his cronies. After an altercation on his way home from school lands him a chance meeting with former professional boxer "Action" Jackson, Jimmy decides to learn how to defend himself.

The Box is a hybrid short film that combines documentary, stop-motion animation, and cinematic vignettes to immerse our audience in the world of solitary confinement. We interview three people who have spent a combined 9 years in solitary, one of whom is of the two directors of the film, James Burns. All three stories are told at the same time and progressively build onto one another, each subject telling a different chapter from the same book. (imdb)

Disaster strikes when teenage Cody becomes the victim of a grain entrapment accident. (imdb)