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In April, camera company Canon and Hollywood heavyweight Ron Howard launched a contest called Project Imagination, which searched for the best trailer from among a group of user submissions. Half a year later, the winning trailer has been turned into a short film, with Hunger Games stars Josh Hutcherson and Jena Malone in the lead roles.

The short film in question is titled “The Rusted,” and it is based off “Tainted Water,” the Project Imagination-winning trailer created by young filmmaker Mark Mukherjee. Hutcherson and Malone portray a brother and sister who are harried by supernatural forces within their home. Hutcherson also served as the film’s co-producer, while Kat Candler directed it.

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In 2011, Ron Howard set up Project Imagination with Canon. The contest invites young filmmakers and storytellers to submit their trailers with the winning entry having a shot at their story idea getting made. This year's winning trailer was for a would-be movie called Tainted Water and Canon liked the concept so much, they commissioned a full short which was written and directed by Kat Chandler (of Hellion fame).

Now titled The Rusted, the short stars The Hunger Games co-stars Josh Hutcherson and Jena Malone as a brother and sister who share deep rooted anxieties about their childhood home, anxieties which physically manifest and affect the siblings in a very real, tangible way.

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Kat Candler's latest film was inspired by a trailer. Candler wrote and directed "The Rusted," a psychological thriller starring Josh Hutcherson and Jena Malone, as part of Canon and Ron Howard’s Project Imagination: The Trailer contest. Howard and Hutchinson chose one winning trailer created by Mark Mukherjee, a college student in Florida. Candler is best known for adapting her short film "Hellion" into a feature of the same name, which screened at Sundance 2014. Read More: Attention, Filmmakers: Essential Short Filmmaking Tips "The Rusted" is a film about a brother and sister's attempt to renovate their childhood home into a recording studio, but strange happenings force them to deal with memories from their past. The global premiere of the film took place via a livestream with AOL Build on October 22 and is now available at imagination.usa.canon.com. Francesca Silvestri and Kevin Chinoy of Freestyle Picture Company, as well as.

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