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Life Tracker
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Dillon, a documentary filmmaker, decides to follow a news story about a scientific discovery to predict a person's genetic future through their DNA. He has no idea how closely the story will effect his life. |
THE STORY When Dillon decides to get off his ass and shoot some actual footage rather than simply calling himself a documentary filmmaker, he stumbles on a little known news story about a company called Life Tracker Limited out of Spokane Washington. The company claims it has discovered a way to predict biological events in a human’s life by looking at its DNA. Everyone views the story as a modern day form of palm reading that will go no where, but Dillon keeps turning on his camera when he finds articles on the Internet or hears about it on the news. Eventually there’s no choice but to continue documenting the story. It keeps getting bigger and bigger. It enters politics. It enters warfare. People all over the world are paying tons of money to see if their DNA shows any trace of disease, or future children, or when they’ll die. With little to no resources, Dillon is left to gorilla style street interviews and filming the reactions of his small group of friends. Maybe Dillon would never have started filming the Life Tracker documentary if he had known how close to home the new technology would hit. When Dillon, his best friend Scott, and Scott’s girlfriend Bell all go get their futures predicted their lives start to change… along with the world itself. Nothing is physically changed in any single person’s day-to-day life, but the ideas that have been put in people’s heads convince them to flip the world upside-down… That’s when things start to get out of hand. |
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In addition to the team at Red and Tan: Director of Photography - David A. Armstrong (Saw I - VI, Heroes) Casting Directors - JC Cantu and Mary Vernieu of Betty Mae Casting (Black Swan, Crazy Heart, Machete) Unit Production Manager - Jenny Hinkey (500 Days of Summer) Please contact us if you would like to discuss a co-production or investment opportunity. |
SYNOPSIS ANDREW FROMMER (45) and his wife, SARA (35), have recently moved to Portland, Oregon. Andrew, plagued by the paranoia of living in a new city, installs a security system to ease his fears. Unfortunately for him, they do nothing but further his paranoia. Soon mysterious videos are left for him to find, videos that show footage from his security system. Someone has hacked in. Is it Dobby, the tweeker that harasses him nightly? Is it Liam or Eric, his coworkers? He calls his wife to make sure she's okay, but it's too late. He races home to find the front open and his wife gone. Andrew continues to receive strange tapes on his doorstep. However they are no longer footage from his home security system. They’re home videos of other women being abducted. One such tape is marked with the last name "WRIGHT" and a date. The tape includes footage of a woman who desperately fights back with all her might. Andrew searches for information about the woman and learns she is the only victim to escape a serial killer's attack. In search of answers, he tracks down EMILY WRIGHT (30s) and begins a friendship. Their friendship becomes a courtship and the lines between Andrew's past and present are blurred. He confuses Sara and Emily, calling Emily by the wrong name and mistakenly seeing Sara where Emily stands. He relives his past and creates new memories with Sara through Emily. His life is falling apart. His medication is no longer working. Andrew begins to believe that Emily had something to do with Sara's disappearance. Desperate to save their relationship and Andrew's sanity, Emily reveals to him what really happened. They really met years ago. Sara wasn't kidnapped months ago, but years ago. And that is only the beginning of the truth - and Andrew is no innocent. Andrew discovers the last of the tapes, which show clearly that he and Emily found the abductor that killed Sara. The same man Emily escaped from. In a blind rage, Andrew killed the abductor, his wife, and the killer's ten-year-old son. Andrew, shocked by the revelation of his own crimes hides the evidence and buries the horrific memories. However, his need to find Sara keeps him reliving the past, one horrific cycle after another. |
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Writer / Director - Joe McClean Dave - Jon Thomas Richard - Chas Mitchell Shooting in June with the Canon 60D. Film festival run starting soon after. |