PLANETA DESCONOCIDO
~35 minutes/US/English / Short Narrative/Sci-Fi
Directors: Troy P. Bernier* and Eric Swain*
planetadesconocido.com
WORLD PREMIERE / Filmed in Miami
ABOUT THE FILM: A young scientist is recruited to participate on a classified mission. The diverse research team is sent into the far reaches of the outer solar system. Months from home, it becomes a desperate situation when they find out they are caught in the middle of a war. A research crew is trapped on a distant moon by an outbreak of war. Source: filmmaker
ABOUT THE DIRECTORS: Troy P. Bernier and Eric Swain are scientists in the real world...
Originally from Illinois, Eric Swain is a civil engineer with the US Geological Survey. Troy P. Bernier is from New York and is a Geologist with Florida Memorial University and Miami Dade College. Both are scientists in South Florida with a common interest in film making. Eric and Troy are making films through their company Ginnungagap FilmWerks, which began several years ago. They have completed four previous films as a team, several of which have screened at the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival in New York and at Cinema Paradiso (home of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival) in Fort Lauderdale. Their film company has also completed audition tapes, video-resumes, as well as corporate projects. The word Ginnungagap is a word in Norse Mythology meaning “the void preceding creation” which fits the paradigm of their low-to-no budget productions, which created the most elaborate possible scenes with the most minimal resources. Source: ginnungagapfilmwerks.com
CAST: Sheena Blake, Michael Bienvenu, Rita Ritvin, Suzy Augustin, Barclay Shoemaker, Paul Eller, Amedeo Falgiatore, (for full cast list, please see site or IMDB).
* Be sure to catch directors Troy P. Bernier and Eric Swain and the cast and crew of PLANETA DESCONOCIDO at the Ginnungagap FilmWerks* panel, the Florida Filmmaker panel (Sunday) and their screening Q&A’s!
