Takeda Directs Sci-Fi Thriller

Actor Brent Lambert

Takeda Entertainment has joined forces with Wine Dog Pictures to produce the short film ‘Game Over’ as a part of Albuquerque’s 48 Hour Film Project competition.

The sci-fi thriller follows five friends who head out for a weekend of technological fun only to find a technological nightmare. It stars Courtney Bell, Morse Bicknell, LeighAnn Gould, Rachel Hroncich, and Brent Lambert.

“I’m extremely pleased,” said producer Aynn Kirby. “Our only goal was to produce good work and to have fun, and I think it shows. The audience has really responded well to the film.”

The 48-Hour Film Project is a script-to-screen competition where teams write, shoot, and edit a short film within a 48 hour timespan.  All teams must include three elements within their film (a prop, a character, and a line of dialogue) and randomly draw a film genre. (We drew sci-fi.) This year’s required elements were a bag, a gardener named Jay or Julie Michaels, and the line ‘It works for me.”

The creative team for this production includes Hroncich (executive producer), Kirby (producer), Scott Takeda (director), Rob Palmer (writer), Fritz Eberle (cinematographer), Brock Sherman (edit), John Crockett (assistant director), Phil Arnold (Sound), Frank Montoya (Gaffer), J. Nathan Simmons (Best Boy), Sarah Northrop (assistant camera), LaTasha Hartley (PA), and David Garcia (Grip).

The film premiers Thursday July 15 at the Kimo Theatre in downtown Albuquerque.