So, Boom - Awards
Best Narrative Short, Special Jury Mention: Tribeca Film Festival
Best Narrative Short: San Quentin Film Festival
Best Narrative Short: Emeryville Film Festival
Alex Sichel Memorial Award Nominee: Movie Crush Film Festival
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Tribeca Exit Survey - Short Stick Films
"The funniest comedy of the festival is about… a woman getting ready to go to jail?"
Tribeca 2026: ‘Run It Back’ Narrative Short Review - The Movie Revue
"One of the best Short Films from this year’s Tribeca Festival is Abby Pierce’s Run It Back, a striking and effective piece that speaks to a serious sociopolitical issue... Any good work about formerly incarcerated individuals captures such feelings with tenderness and truth. Abby Pierce’s Run It Back is a very good work."
Tender, Hopeful and Human: 10 Must-Watch Shorts from Tribeca 2026 - Director's Notes
"Abby Pierce’s So, Boom spins this into a 14-minute burst of magical realism, and here’s the trick of it: a film about incarceration that never once tips into the dutiful, issue-movie worthiness you’d brace for. It’s funny, fierce and properly alive."
"Roger Ebert called movies “empathy machines,” and I love that idea. I wish I could bring everyone into my improv classes in jail so they could meet these incredible young people themselves, but I can’t. And I can’t bring my students out to meet everyone. So filmmaking becomes another way of making that introduction."
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