This week, Consequence of Sound: Film editor Dominick Suzanne - Mayer joins us to break down the mind - bending time travel
microbudget indie Primer!
After a string of studio comedies, followed by
a microbudget indie and a couple of dramas, he's back on screens this fall with the political satire Our Brand Is Crisis.
With a cast of unknowns, an obscure second - time director and a story about two high - school kids who befriend a young woman with terminal leukemia,
this microbudget indie is about as far from the obvious Oscar heavy - hitters as we can imagine.
Not exact matches
The Dallas - based filmmaker has been one of the best - kept secrets of the
indie world thanks to his
microbudgeted feature debut «St. Nick» in 2009, and short follow - up «Pioneer» in 2011 (starring Will Oldham), and he developed «Saints» through the Sundance Labs, before WME helped bring it to the attention of Mara and Affleck, whose presence helped him to raise the $ 6 million budget.
Mark Duplass, a mainstay of
indie cinema's
microbudget «mumblecore» movement, and recent convert Olivia Wilde ably play a scientist...
The independent production is skillfully cobbled together on a
microbudget (as horror films often are) by writer / director team Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead — the minds behind similarly Lovecraftian
indie thrillers Resolution and Spring.