Eric Swain and Troy Bernier are two South Florida scientists who are inspired by their love of sci-fi. But after leaving the lab, they don't just go to midnight movies—they make their own. The results are low-budget, campy crowd pleasers that resemble recent cult hits like "The Room" and "Birdemic" much more than "Star Wars" or "Star Trek."When Swain and Bernier submitted their short "A Brief Spell" to the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival in 2002, the movie was rejected, yet it attracted the interest of festival co-founders and Brooklyn-based documentarians Myles Kane and Josh Koury. The duo was at first confused but also instantly fascinated, and they now call themselves fans of Swain and Bernier's earnest amateur productions.Kane and Koury followed the filmmakers for more than two years, shooting over 200 hours of footage, during the production of their most ambitious project to date, "Planeta Desconocido," in which a research.
- 4/21/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Daniel Lehman)
- backstage.com
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