16 WORDS OR LESS is a film by Meghan Finn and Peggy Stafford, commissioned by Staging Film, a community of theater-makers and filmmakers who are exploring new ways to tell theater stories with film. 16 WORDS tells the story of a flower shop clerk who helps a grieving man find words to express his loss. Working with principal actors from the stage production, Crystal Finn (Plano, The Tick) and Neal Huff (Spotlight, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel), our aim was to recreate the unique connection that these actors had built in the stage production, in our film.