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Downward | Sci-Fi Short Film | Dawnward Universe | Action Short Film

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  • In Downward, a sci-fi action short film, a widow braves into a battlefield to retrieve her husband's body with the help of a super soldier.
    ✅ Learn more about the Dawnward Universe! 👉 dawnwarduniver...
    A soldier's widow desperately searches for her husband's body and is forced to solicit help from a super-soldier to find him. An award winning short sci-fi action film, DOWNWARD is a story of loss and forgiveness, of how far people will go to overcome their own grief regardless of who they are.
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    Welcome to the Dawnward Universe, a unique post-apocalyptic sci-fi setting showing humanity's new future amidst a world of horrors and autocratic super-soldiers.
    Like to know more? Head over to the official site: dawnwarduniver...
    00:00 The Message
    03:54 The Request
    05:55 The Dragoon
    08:45 The Killing Fields
    11:11 Rest
    14:12 The Mine
    18:18 The Guardian
    20:20 Confrontation
    24:15 Credits
    #scifishortfilm #scifishorts #actionshortfilm

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  • @dawnwarduniverse8088
    @dawnwarduniverse8088  ปีที่แล้ว +11

    ✅ Learn more about the Dawnward Universe! And check out our Novels! 👉 dawnwarduniverse.com/

  • @airbrushken5339
    @airbrushken5339 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    As a train artist, teacher and a Vietnam War Combat Veteran (2/502 Inf, 101st Airborne with 9 years Army) I grew up LOVING Sci-Fi and on recon missions (on the DMZ, the "A Shau Valley" area) I was the team sniper ... which meant I would move to a location I could cover my fellow Troopers. The rear command unit would send out cigs and sometimes paperback books... I'd always grab the Sci-Fi books... to kill time listening for any sounds. I've been in war and I've ended men's lives and also lost some fellow Troopers .... this short video brought tears to my eyes .... it's what war is about, loss!
    There was no welcome home, just a quiet flight into Chicago ... and the whole airport was seemly unaware of all the death and carnage. At least this touches two of those. I took out a trail watcher, who was to slow so I ended him before he ended one of my guys. In his pocket was a leather picture holder with a pic of a woman in a traditional Vietnamese dress holding a baby .... My wife was pregnant when I left for that war, and had just given birth to my son 3 weeks before this happened. Looking at that photo I lost my humanity, excellent film...thank you.

    • @TheSilmarillian
      @TheSilmarillian 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I hear you loud and clear same forward recon, you are not then nor now alone.

  • @waynemyers2469
    @waynemyers2469 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I've always been a sci-fi/adventure fan but as I've grown older (I'm pushing 70) I've become more and more open to the emotional content of a film and the deeper psycho/ philosophical side of stories and for that very reason I've been attracted to your films. I haven't quite figured out the backstories of the different factions but I'm completely open to picking that up piecemeal as the films progress because, well, because that's how life works. Anyway, you have my blessings to continue (not that you need the permission of a foolish old man...), that's for sure and I'm going to go check out the rest of your films if I can find them and I do that without any fear of being disappointed, you folks are doing an outstanding job, especially if your goal is to get me sitting forward in my chair one moment, and dissolved in a pool of tears the next...
    (*P.S. Let your actors know that they're acting circles around the pompous, overpayed Hollywood bums we're forced to watch in the so-called blockbuster movies they cram down our throats nowadays...bravo!*)

    • @dawnwarduniverse8088
      @dawnwarduniverse8088  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wayne, thanks for your comment. We love to hear you've enjoyed it! We also have a website to get caught up on the lore and characters. We even have a few books out you can read set in the universe! More stuff coming down the pipeline. Here's a link to our site: dawnwarduniverse.com/

    • @louisbrien7509
      @louisbrien7509 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Omg I thought this is a stand alone. Now I will enjoy more.

    • @joggersgunajog
      @joggersgunajog ปีที่แล้ว

      Hope ur still alive I'm 39 and I'm not making 70 my liver is shot and I won't get transplant but hey hope u had good life u lived through better years than the young ones nowadays I miss the 90's now our president it's a vegetable that's a pedo hope we are saved by TRUMP

    • @waynemyers2469
      @waynemyers2469 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@joggersgunajog My friend, it's not my place to say this but you seem kind of cynical and fatalistic for a guy who's only 39. Of course, when I read your post a dozen questions leaped to mind, like: CAN you get a liver, are you on the list? If you COULD get one are you saying you'd turn it down? A friend of mine got a liver and his quality of life shot right up to 100% after about a year-and-a-half and he's alive to this day, as far as I know. But even more than all that (You don't owe me an explanation so tell me to fuck-off if you want to.) I'm curious, don't you WANT to live, are you in pain, have you lost faith with the world?
      Finally, and this is a sensitive subject, I know but I've gone this far, so: What is causing your liver to fail, are you an alcoholic (I am.)? However, despite my failings I STILL want to live, in fact, surrounded by a world that has become corrupted and dangerous and nearly hopeless I still cling to life like an infant to it's mothers breast, I don't want to die, although I understand if young people these days, or actually, ANY people these days see nothing but hardship and destruction and storm-clouds on the horizon but I'm kind of a self-taught historian and I know that we've been through worse than this...mankind has dodged the bullet several times over the last 100,000 years and we can dodge it again if we must, although this time around it's beginning to seem like it will be a more deliberate and self-inflicted wound we're going to face but, still, it's not a completely hopeless situation...grim but not hopeless.
      Anyway, sorry for getting all philosophical on you but that's just me and you're permitted to just ignore me if you want, my curiosity does not require that you explain anything...quite frankly I don't recall ever hearing someone express a desire or a plan to cut their life short...it seems like a tragic place to be in your own head...what does your family say and (last question.) do you believe in God? There I go again, I've already generated another half-dozen questions but I'll just leave things where they are and not pressure you, feel free to respond, or not...Peace.

    • @joggersgunajog
      @joggersgunajog ปีที่แล้ว

      @@waynemyers2469 my wife of 6 years died at 24 yrs old she o
      Killed her liver over a toothache 2 days later I had to make the decision to kill my daughters mom and my wife, this is after her mom died 7 months before and my mother a week after that, found my mother dead in the morning and she was my best friend and just so many more years of 💔,my liver and spleen have been enlarged for years now I have Hep C and years of not living a healthy life hasn't helped ..no im not on list and my only fears are something happening to my kids and surgery especially after my mom had anesthesia awareness and heard other people go through that.. and God panel wouldn't even put down on the list most likely,
      I'll read some more of your reply later it was too much for me to read right now with my daughter pulling at the phone lol

  • @docwilson5384
    @docwilson5384 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You guys deserve a Grammy. Amazing job...Peace

    • @dawnwarduniverse8088
      @dawnwarduniverse8088  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thanks!! Please make sure to subscribe! Note coming out soon!

  • @lisanidog8178
    @lisanidog8178 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The stupidity of war no matter which side. Deaths that mean nothing in the end. We’ll never learn. We’ll never stop. I cry for her husband and all the casualties of war that shouldn’t happen. 😢

  • @ivechang6720
    @ivechang6720 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Excellent. I appreciate the deep seated conflicts in your universe. It's in a sub genre that often gets under served. You do it justice.
    Storyline, characters, world, sound, design, storyboard, costume, makeup, props, cinematography, and development are all well represented. One of the most delightful aspects for me is how you make extensive use of implied context.
    Carry on neighbor!

    • @pn4775
      @pn4775 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      well put. i agree whole heartedly. excellent production. thank you

  • @bobbyduke777
    @bobbyduke777 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If walking makes you lose your breath, you have bigger problems then finding a body.

  • @MatthewEverhart
    @MatthewEverhart หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very well done. Bravo.

  • @CaptRich-bi3gp
    @CaptRich-bi3gp ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Whoa, that was heavy; bravo!!!

    • @dawnwarduniverse8088
      @dawnwarduniverse8088  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks so much!! If you want to see the prequel to this, here’s the link!
      th-cam.com/video/1gsYbIljT0E/w-d-xo.html

    • @CaptRich-bi3gp
      @CaptRich-bi3gp ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dawnwarduniverse8088
      Heck yeah, thank you!!! I'm headed there right now... 👍

  • @barrahart
    @barrahart ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ah-hah! Much... much... better! *This* is how you deliver.

  • @seektruth3307
    @seektruth3307 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It was good film but with so many surplus military helmets available, next time just use those instead of the bicycle helmets full of holes which look really funny for a helmet to prevent bullet and shrapnel wounds. Sometimes those small details that distract a bit but overall, good movie.

    • @canufi6my
      @canufi6my ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I understood the use of bicycle helmets by the civilians that were unable to be issued military equipment. Kinds like a homegrown militia. Therefore it was a small detail that brought realism about a civil war.

    • @seektruth3307
      @seektruth3307 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@canufi6my Well, I am not taking away from the movie at all. I suspect "homegrown militia" would forego a plastic bump helmet with holes altogether and either just wear camo/dark hats or maybe even find some old steel "piss pots" like they used in WWII and Vietnam. Interesting side note, some snipers revealed they had a easier time shooting enemy combatants when they had helmets on than when they just had hats. Something about the "target" looks less human when they are all geared up.

    • @canufi6my
      @canufi6my ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@seektruth3307 Yep, sometimes ya have to go to war with what ya have.

    • @jimpatterson5524
      @jimpatterson5524 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@canufi6my, seems i remember somebody else saying that.

    • @jimpatterson5524
      @jimpatterson5524 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      first thing i noticed. And i though as small a thing as tape underneath the hole would have visually improved that blunder.

  • @MatthewEverhart
    @MatthewEverhart หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice of her to wear that bright white shemagh out in the field.

  • @seeker7533
    @seeker7533 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Loved This! Awesome work. Can't wait to hopefully see more of your work!

    • @dawnwarduniverse8088
      @dawnwarduniverse8088  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks so much, Seeker! Make sure to sub, starting a channel always takes some time. We have another short out called Ascendance with some familiar faces from this one: th-cam.com/video/1gsYbIljT0E/w-d-xo.html

  • @VDOTU5
    @VDOTU5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    THIS IS SO GOOD TOO! My headcanon is this is a modern version of the Star Wars universe set around Mandalorians but they're called Dragoons... It's a reach, I know 😆.

  • @earldean4858
    @earldean4858 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Powerful! Wow, This story tells way more than the things that are said

  • @JohnSmith-sj2dk
    @JohnSmith-sj2dk ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent

  • @phillipayoung10
    @phillipayoung10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent all the way around!! Keep them comin'!!!

    • @dawnwarduniverse8088
      @dawnwarduniverse8088  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you so much!! Please subscribe! We have 2 shorts coming up we’ll definitely be posting. Perhaps a few older ones as well. Hopefully next short will be up soon!

  • @lunainezdelamancha3368
    @lunainezdelamancha3368 ปีที่แล้ว

    Some of these films leave me speechless... this is one of them. 👍👍👍

    • @dawnwarduniverse8088
      @dawnwarduniverse8088  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you so much! More coming soon! Please make sure to subscribe

  • @Cesly-mo3uf
    @Cesly-mo3uf ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This stuff is great. S tier. I'm completely on board.

    • @dawnwarduniverse8088
      @dawnwarduniverse8088  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you so much! Please subscribe! There’s so more fun stuff coming out! Definitely different

  • @kingprice35
    @kingprice35 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This was amazing
    We need MORE

    • @dawnwarduniverse8088
      @dawnwarduniverse8088  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Make sure to subscribe! I think the plan is to get another one of our shorts out really soon! Has a different vibe but we think people will enjoy it!

  • @danlonick800
    @danlonick800 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was really good. Well done all involved. I hope to see more.

  • @Davidautofull
    @Davidautofull 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    finally, the shorts have a meaning and an end and make sense.

  • @scetchport
    @scetchport ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As like others i enjoyed this short and want more.
    Subbd, great acting.

  • @Taliesin-xd7ke
    @Taliesin-xd7ke ปีที่แล้ว

    Powerful stuff with a good message.

  • @spiritangel1367
    @spiritangel1367 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really got into this. I'm going to have to check out what else u have. I've subbed..!! Top Short..!! 👌

  • @TheKatarinaGiselle
    @TheKatarinaGiselle ปีที่แล้ว

    I like this series! I wish there were more than 3!

  • @louisbrien7509
    @louisbrien7509 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That’s entertainment! Wow, good work, short films are awesome, the pretext, action, and conclusion all balled into such a tight time frame, and cinematography that I find enjoyable.
    Is it a post apocalyptic world, after mankind nuked itself or invaders and protectors defending mankind, zero birth rate inferred covered all the grounds.
    Thumbs up!

  • @dwightdell6953
    @dwightdell6953 ปีที่แล้ว

    Incredible thank you

  • @royvaladez4051
    @royvaladez4051 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    GREAT MOVIE!! DID THE LADY SAVE HIM?

  • @johnkufeldt3564
    @johnkufeldt3564 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great storyline, just found you today, liked, subbed. Looking forward to watching more, cheers from Canada.

  • @bobbyduke777
    @bobbyduke777 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    pretty good acting, I like it

    • @dawnwarduniverse8088
      @dawnwarduniverse8088  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks!! If you would like to see the prequel to this, here’s the link!
      th-cam.com/video/1gsYbIljT0E/w-d-xo.html
      Make sure to subscribe to see more shorts soon!

  • @GreatGreebo
    @GreatGreebo ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow! Well done 👏👏👏

  • @athomeinmyhead
    @athomeinmyhead 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well done.

  • @41663
    @41663 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    War is hell

  • @lisanidog8178
    @lisanidog8178 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Would help if that Colonel would stop lying to her.

  • @buzzpatch2294
    @buzzpatch2294 ปีที่แล้ว

    nice work- thx

  • @41divad
    @41divad ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Better than a lot... wish the storyline was developed

    • @dawnwarduniverse8088
      @dawnwarduniverse8088  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Totally right! This was more of a small foray into the universe/story. You can check out more of the lore an also some of the books we've written for the series here: dawnwarduniverse.com/
      Also, if you haven't see it already, here's the link to the prequel of this short: th-cam.com/video/1gsYbIljT0E/w-d-xo.html

  • @ericchamata9902
    @ericchamata9902 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bicycle helmets.....i end there! 😂

  • @MestreDentistaGUC
    @MestreDentistaGUC ปีที่แล้ว

    Sweet

  • @BrownPP46
    @BrownPP46 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome work! got a sub from me, looking forward for more!

    • @dawnwarduniverse8088
      @dawnwarduniverse8088  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We’ll have something out very soon! It’s quite different from the other two shorts on the channel!

  • @donmcneal233
    @donmcneal233 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good....

  • @CannonRanger-1
    @CannonRanger-1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this story line. More please. Consider me as sub 208.

  • @animalkub2510
    @animalkub2510 ปีที่แล้ว

    👏👏👏👏

  • @messengerangel5388
    @messengerangel5388 ปีที่แล้ว

    Need more realistic props. But interesting storyline!

  • @JULIASMITH-eg9kp
    @JULIASMITH-eg9kp ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤😮 0:22

  • @barrypettit4955
    @barrypettit4955 ปีที่แล้ว

    paint baller weekend

  • @agapitomelorques6364
    @agapitomelorques6364 ปีที่แล้ว

    I Loved Everything about it, BUT THE STORY,, DIDN'T,,, GO WITH THE PICTURE.?! But that's just Me, Right.?!
    "Anyways, Thank You for Sharing. .?¿
    from; TIJUANA MEXICO '

    • @dawnwarduniverse8088
      @dawnwarduniverse8088  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for watching! Are you talking about the thumbnail for the video? Because that’s a screenshot directly from the movie