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Video — Landing Documentary

A cinematic documentary landing built for independent filmmakers — letterboxed hero with an amber play badge, an editorial synopsis, a scrolling strip of festival laurels, a grid of film stills you can lightbox, a director statement, and a booking CTA. Dark film-forward palette, JetBrains Mono timecodes, and a stealthy runtime meter that tracks scroll progress like a scrubber. Every control is keyboard-usable with visible focus and AA contrast.

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A single-page landing for a fictional feature documentary, The Long Coast. The hero sits inside hard letterbox bars with a slow-panning still, an amber play badge, and a runtime timecode that doubles as the film’s logline. A thin scrubber pinned to the top of the viewport fills as you scroll, reading the page like a timeline.

Below the fold an editorial synopsis pairs with a marquee of festival laurels that pauses on hover. A responsive grid of film stills opens into a keyboard-navigable lightbox — arrow keys and Escape both work — while a director statement and a screening CTA form round out the page. A toast() helper confirms the fictional booking request.

The layout is built with vanilla HTML, CSS custom properties, and dependency-free JavaScript. It collapses cleanly to a single column at 520px, keeps every interactive element focus-visible, and holds AA contrast against the near-black cinematic surface.