SAINT JUDE
Written & Directed by Marc Fortunato
I made Saint Jude to explore the things we leave unsaid.
I’ve always been drawn to quiet moments in film—those in-between beats where something real creeps in. A pause. A look. A breath before the truth comes out. That’s where this story lives.
It started with a simple image: a man in a car, rehearsing a eulogy. But there was something deeper going on—something about regret, memory, and the things we never figure out how to say.
The Saint Jude figurine on the dash became the heart of it. He’s the patron saint of hopeless causes—the one people turn to when they’re at the end of the line. That felt right.
I wanted the story to unfold slowly. No backstory, just a man sitting with everything he never said. It builds through performance, silence, and tension you can feel more than explain.
Saint Jude is personal. It’s about guilt and silence—but also about how, sometimes, just saying it out loud is the start of letting go.
