Directed by Melanie van Betten Jeffcoat

Inspired by real events, Lockdown follows a mother who arrives to pick up her daughter from school and suddenly finds herself trapped in a terrifying fight for survival. Without relying on graphic violence, the film creates tension through uncertainty, fear, and emotional realism, capturing the psychological impact of school violence with restraint and humanity.

Lockdown is a short film by award-winning Writer/Director Melanie Jeffcoat and was inspired by her own experience in high school when a classmate came to school with a gun and killed her history teacher and then shot and wounded two classmates.