I Already Went
Director: Al Oxborough
United States, 2023, 4 min
Shooting Format:Digital
Festival Year:2024
Category:Narrative Short
Genres:Comedy, Sci-fi
Cast:Heather Martin, Lorelye Johnson, Laith Hoffarth, Ali Alownle
Crew:Writer: Allegra Oxborough. Producers: Rafaela Sanchez, Grant Cutler.
Email:allegraoxborough@gmail.com
Synopsis
'I Already Went' is a bleak comedic satire set in a not-so-distant future, where our craving for convenience is at an all-time high.
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About the director
Al is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY and co-founder of production company Eldest Daughter. Their 2018 docu-fiction short, “Distance,” was praised by NoBudge.com for its “intoxicating ability to capture private conversations with dead-on accuracy,” and by a Short of the Week programmer for “Amazing performances and direction.” Al’s recent film works have screened at Academy Award-qualifying festivals and museums worldwide, including the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, LA Shorts International, Brooklyn Film Festival, and Paris Film Week. Al’s consumerist satire, “I Already Went,” premiered in May 2024 at Vienna Shorts International, and their psychological comedy in development, “Portrait,” is a 2025 NYSCA awardee, WeScreenplay’s Shorts Semi-Finalist, and ScreenCraft Film Fund Quarter Finalist. Al’s debut original feature screenplay “Nothing to Hide” won the International Screenwriters’ Association’s Table Read My Screenplay Grand Prize and received a table read at Cannes Marché du Film in 2025, where Al also pitched the feature as part of the Linz International Talent Academy cohort. A queer dark comedy set at a bachelorette party in the suburban Midwest, “Nothing to Hide” is slated for production in September 2026.
Filmmaker's note
Stemming from a dream I had in early 2023, 'I Already Went' explores our modern mania for convenience. Despite its dark core, the film is a playful and a highly collaborative work - the result of many hands, voices, and minds coming together.
'I Already Went' stars Heather Martin, known as the Bachelor contestant who had her first kiss on broadcast television. Casting Heather was an ode to my love of reality TV, and to my lifelong susceptibility to the cunning manipulation of advertising. I'm also grateful to real-life dad and daughter Laith Hoffarth and Loreleye Johnson - debuting their acting chops here.
I brought in Eliot Krimsky to arrange and play the Dampers tune, and a dozen close friends with kids contributed their voices for our jingle choir.