01/10/2020
RICHMOND, VA: After the success of People Don't Die in the Comics Anymore, Remember Tommy Productions is excited to announce their next film, Shanidar, written by award-winning playwright Chandler Hubbard and directed by Remember Tommy founder Austin Lewis. Additional producers include Chelsea Burke and Deejay Gray from TheatreLAB.
SHANIDAR is a non-traditional apocalypse story about survival, sanity, and what makes someone worth saving. At the end of days, a group of strangers find themselves thrust into a safe haven that is crumbling by the minute. These six women must contend with themselves and each other in a landscape bursting at the seams with unseen terror. The world outside their door is hungry, but the true horror might already be inside. This forged yet fractured family must question fairness, the importance (or unimportance) of remembering what came before us, and the vulnerability of trusting strangers with your life.
“The coronavirus crisis has certainly showed us the meaning of isolation, but has also forced our interconnected world to slow down, focus inward, and re-evaluate what is important to us. The unspecified “apocalypse” of Shanidar forces us to do the same, and revisit our humanity under duress. What will you keep with you at the end of the world? More importantly, who?” says Remember Tommy founder.
Playwright Chandler Hubbard says that “now is the time for stories. In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, works about the human spirit overcoming isolation, division and fear is exactly the sort of story that needs to be told."
This film will employ local technicians, actors and artists, beginning an initiative to bring film experience to theatre professionals in central Virginia, with a focus on opportunities for women in film, both in front of and behind the camera.
Production will begin January 2021 with an expected release date of late March, 2021. To support this project directly, visit our crowdfunding site at http://www.seedandspark.com/fund/shanidarfilm when crowdfunding begins October 16th.
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For more information, please contact Austin Lewis at [email protected].
