In Development
RED BLOOM
Script complete. Currently in financing and pre-production
SYNOPSIS
In the near future, a Mars colony founded on faith and idealism has gone dark. A rescue crew has been sent to find out why. Because of the distances involved, the journey takes nine months. Whatever is waiting for them has had time to grow.
Among the crew is Jane, a pathologist sent to determine what may have killed the colony. Alongside her is a state-mandated priest, a man who has spent fifty years preparing for exactly this kind of darkness. And Dex, a soldier and operative who stopped asking what the mission was for a long time ago and started asking what it would take.
When the crew arrives they find the evidence of a mass death and a Vicar of a newly formed cult performing human sacrifice in the name of something that demands blood.
Jane knows what needs to happen. The priest has authority over the room and a completely different idea of what is at stake in it. While they fight for control of the situation the clock runs out. What follows leaves none of them with the answers they came for.
A proof of concept for the feature film RED BLOOM. A film about the costs of certainty
Director’s Statement
The history of human suffering has a recurring character: the person who is absolutely certain they are right. Certainty is not always dangerous, but when it operates without friction, without check, without the willingness to be wrong, it has a way of becoming the most destructive force in any room.
We are living through one of those moments. The divisions that define this period are not simply political or cultural. They are epistemological. People are no longer just disagreeing about what to do. They are disagreeing about what is real, what is true, and who has the authority to say so. And those disagreements have consequences.
RED BLOOM is a film about the damage that certainty does when it goes unchecked. Not the certainty of villains, but the certainty of people who are genuinely convinced they are right.
I am not interested in making a film that tells the audience what to believe. I am interested in making a film that asks what belief costs. What it costs the people who hold it and what it costs the people in the room with them.
The answer that the film arrives at is not cynicism. It is a case for open curiosity, for the willingness to sit inside a question without forcing a resolution. In a world that rewards certainty, that is a harder thing to practice than it sounds