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It’s been four years since Planet Thunder Productions, writer/director Jacob Leighton Burns and producer Zachary Burns won deadCenter’s Best Oklahoma Narrative Feature Film in 2016. After next taking home the first-place prize from the 48-hour Film Project in 2016 with Let the Bodies Hit the Floor followed by their 2017 documentary about New View Oklahoma, Fleeting Light, many in the Oklahoma film community began wondering what their next genre project would look like. Two years of fundraising, a multi-part production and a world premiere event cut short due to the recent global pandemic later, the Burns brothers follow-up film, Shifter, finally makes its Oklahoma debut at this weekend’s deadCenter 2020 film festival.

In part five of our ongoing Shifter Audio Diary series, found exclusively on The Cinematic Schematic podcast, we catch up with writer/director Jacob Burns and producer Zachary Burns to recount the impact the COVID-19 outbreak had on their world premiere at Cinequest before talking about the excitement to bring their new film back home to premiere in their hometown of Oklahoma City. Tune in to get all of the insider stories and the deadCenter premiere details!

The official deadCenter synopsis reads:

SHIFTER is a time-travel horror film about a young woman who experiences 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. Subverting many time-travel movie tropes and led by a primarily female cast, SHIFTER is not your typical time-travel film. Not only is it a tense horror thriller with scares and gruesome gory effects, but also a character drama that explores themes of depression, isolation, and the dangers of an unchecked hubris.

SHIFTER IndieGoGo Campaign Video from Planet Thunder Productions on Vimeo.

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

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 Audio Diary #4 – March 2020 – The World Premiere

When and Where to Watch Shifter at deadCenter 2020

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Friday, June 12, 5:00 PM – June 13, 2:00 AM CT