Short film · 2022 · 33:04
Blood Runs
by StudioMGH
An award-winning short that takes a hard subject - mental health - and treats it with real care instead of spectacle. It's quiet where it counts and lands with weight. The sort of film festivals reward because it stays with you. Worth your time, then worth passing on.
Inspired by actual events.
At its core, Blood Runs follows William “Will” Westcott - a man racing through life like it’s a finish line he’ll never reach. Art, fast cars, fleeting love - everything he touches burns fast. To survive, he believes he has to outrun it all: the cops, the streets, his own demons. Sleep when I’m dead.
But life doesn’t play fair. One wrong move, one bad night, and the chain reaction takes everything - his best friend, his future, his chance at redemption.
The film is both personal and universal: a portrait of the pressures that crush young lives, of choices made under impossible weight, of how quickly it all unravels. Blood Runs doesn’t glorify the spiral -it mirrors the harsh truth that for many, survival itself becomes the trap.
