WALLET, THE

January 11, 2010

I’m a huge fan of Onur Tukel’s little-seen-but-screamingly-funny 2001 independent comedy Ding-A-Ling-Less. Since those days, Tukel has toiled away on other projects, but with the posting of The Wallet, a 17-minute short that began as a tossed off after-school experiment with a classroom of kiddies, he has returned with a vengeance. Tukel stars as a fiscally desperate teacher who teaches his young students a valuable political lesson when they discover a wallet full of cold hard cash in a nearby park. I seriously doubt I will encounter a better punchline and last shot this year, but a man can dream.

Take a break from whatever you’re doing and enjoy this little treat:

— Michael Tully

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Michael Tully

Michael Tully is an award-winning writer/director whose films have garnered widespread critical acclaim, his projects having premiered at some of the most renowned film festivals across the globe. He is also the former (and founding) editor of this site. In 2006, Michael's first feature, COCAINE ANGEL, chronicling a tragic week in the life of a young drug addict, world premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film immediately solidified the director as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s "25 New Faces of Independent Film,” a reputation that was reinforced a year later when his follow-up feature, SILVER JEW, a documentary capturing the late David Berman's rare musical performances in Tel Aviv, world-premiered at SXSW and landed distribution with cult indie-music label Drag City. In 2011, Michael wrote, directed, and starred in his third feature, SEPTIEN, which debuted at the 27th annual Sundance Film Festival before being acquired by IFC Films' Sundance Selects banner. A few years later, in 2014, Michael returned to Sundance with the world premiere of his fourth feature, PING PONG SUMMER, an ‘80s set coming-of-age tale that was quickly picked up for theatrical distribution by Gravitas Ventures. In 2018, Michael wrote and directed the dread-inducing genre film DON'T LEAVE HOME, which has been described as "Get Out with Catholic guilt in the Irish countryside" (IndieWire). The film premiered at SXSW and was subsequently acquired by Cranked Up Films and Shudder.

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