After more than a year and a half of fundraising, pre-production, filming and, post-production VFX, The Cinematropolis co-founders Jacob Leighton Burns and Zachary Burns are premiering their new time-travel body horror film, Shifter, at the Cinequest Film and Creativity Festival in San Jose, California on Friday, March 6th.

In part four of our ongoing Shifter Audio Diary series, found exclusively on The Cinematic Schematic podcast, we catch up with Jacob and Zachary about phase 2 of filming, applying VFX in post-production and preparing the film for its world premiere.

Shifter was 100% funded through an IndieGoGo Campaign and filmed in Oklahoma locations including Guthrie, El Reno, and Oklahoma City. The official synopsis reads:

A young woman struggles with the painful and gruesome side effects of an experiment with time travel gone wrong that causes her to lose control and shift through time at random.

SHIFTER – Full Length Official Trailer from Planet Thunder Productions on Vimeo.

The film stars Nicole Fancher, Ashley Mandanas, Leesa Neidel, Stephen Goodman, Ben Hall and, Paul T. Taylor (Hellraiser: Judgement). Shifter is also planned to play at the NoHo Cinefest Film Festival in North Hollywood later this spring.

Listen to the entire Shifter filmmaking journey

Shifter Audio Diary #1 – August 2018 – Crowdsourcing through IndieGoGo and casting the film

Shifter Audio Diary #2 – October 2018 – Location scouting, casting, and starting production

Shifter Audio Diary #3 – January 2019 – Phase 1 filming

Shifter World Premiere Tickets available for the Cinequest Film and Innovation Festival

* Hammer Theatre SJ – Fri, Mar 6 – 6:50 PM* Century 20 Redwood City – Screen 3 – Sat, Mar 7 – 6:55 PM* California Theatre, San Jose –  Tue, Mar 10 – 2:45 PM* Century 20 Redwood City – Screen 1 –  Sat, Mar 14 –  5:30 PM

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