Meet Cute
Two strangers trapped in a pavement stand-off each turn to the audience to narrate wildly different versions of the moment. He's convinced it's fate, she's convinced it's idiocy, until the fourth wall collapses and they're forced to confront each other for real.
- nominated — Lovesick Film Festival (2026)
HE enters stage left. Chin slightly up. Coat collar popped. He clocks something in the middle distance, finger guns at it like they have history.
SHE enters stage right. Moving with purpose. Checking the phone in her hand.
They walk towards each other. They're going to collide.
He steps left to avoid her. She steps the same way. They stop.
They both step in the same direction again. Stop again.
He does a little apologetic hand gesture.
Freeze.
He turns to the audience. She is frozen.
HIM
I actually clocked her about ten paces back. Something about the way she was walking. Like the street was hers and the rest of us were just trespassing.
He glances back at her, still frozen.
HIM (CONT'D)
You meet people like that sometimes. If you’re lucky. People with eyes like November. All fireworks and anticipation. And you think... I don't know. You think maybe you were supposed to notice.
He faces the audience again. Quieter.
HIM (CONT'D)
I nearly walked a different way today.