I, like the other commenters, saw this short at the Manhattan Film Festival in 2015. It was unfortunately the low point of the festival this year. I was hoping for better representation from the only English language short.
If you've read the popular reddit comment (mentioned in Cory's review) before, you're going to immediately recognize this story and groan at how embarrassing the director's take on it is. I didn't see any credit given to the story's actual source, but I may have just missed it. Or who knows maybe it's the same guy and he just makes really schmaltzy condescending movies.