Karrion Kross hopes people discover an important message in his new short film.
Kross recently played the lead role in the short film Blue Evening. The film is about how a man named Frank (Kross, credited as Kevin Robert Kesar) helps a homeless addict improve his life. The film is directed by Jett Jansen, and the executive producers are Cory DeMyers and Kross.
Kross used his personal experiences to highlight what empathy can do for someone, and why he hopes viewers who need it can embrace the human connection.
Karrion Kross focuses on the human connection
“I would say, I just want anyone who maybe didn’t have a place of empathy for a person going through these types of struggles, I hope they find it. It’s a weird thing, more specifically in Western culture, that I have noticed the more and more I travel, where we dehumanize each other. And the older I get, that is really beginning to bother me,” Kross explained. “When I was really young, in my early 20s, I was very career-driven. I just didn’t want to be in debt and I wanted to create savings like anybody. Just the normal stuff we all are trying to do in our 20s.
“We’re trying to find a career path. And nothing else really mattered to me beyond that. But then finally, God-willing, you get where you want to be and you realize that’s not all life is about. And community is a really, really, really, really big thing to me now,” Kross said. “Just being human with each other. The human connection. I hope people find that if they are absent of it, when they watch this film. And I hope they are able to leave with it and keep it and for people who already have it, I hope that they appreciate the story we tried to tell.”
Blue Evening had its first screening at the Pasadena International Film Festival in April, and future dates will be announced in the future. Watch our full interview with Blue Evening’s Karrion Kross, Cory DeMeyers and Jett Jansen below:
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