Imagine This Scene

A father pulls his eight-year-old daughter from the water. She is limp. He begs her to breathe. Time stops.

Years later, broken, terrified of losing his own memories the way he watched dementia steal his mother, that same father makes an impossible choice.

When he wakes at the edge of known space, alone, disoriented, surrounded by a planet that erases memory, he realizes the one thing he cannot afford to lose is the very thing the universe is trying to take from him: the face of the person he came all this way to save.

That is INTERVAL.

The Film

As a dark cloud looms over the future of the world, a desperate father risks the fate of the mission to protect Earth, in order to try to save the life of his daughter.

The Story

It started with the clouds.

Dark. Permanent. Silent.

And when you looked up into them — you were gone.

Not dead. Something quieter than that. The person you were, the faces you loved, the words for things, the map back to everything that mattered, taken. Instantly. Completely.

The black zones spread. Cities went dark. And the world began to understand that whatever this was — it was only getting started.

Kris Andrews lost his mother to a black zone.

One moment she was there.

The next, she was somewhere he couldn't follow.

When his daughter Charlotte nearly drowned, eight years old, pulled from the water, breathing but unreachable, Kris made a choice.

The kind only a parent can make.

It may have cost him everything. It may have cost the world everything.

Some choices can't be taken back.

Vera Brontë knows a different kind of sacrifice.

She is the mission's system analyst. The one who holds everything together, who always has. She chose this mission knowing that when she wakes at the other end of space, the people she loves will have lived entire lives without her.

Her sister Sara. Her partner Sam.

On the last night before launch, she had dinner with Sara. It felt like the right moment to propose to the woman she loves.

It also felt like a goodbye.

Vera chose to go anyway. Because someone has to. Because the black zones are spreading. Because if no one finds out what this thing is, there will be nothing left to come home to.

INTERVAL puts these two people alone together on a ship at the edge of the known universe.

A man who sacrificed everything for his daughter, carrying a secret that puts everyone on board at risk.

A woman who gave up everything willingly, alone in the dark with a man she doesn't yet know she can't trust.

And a planet ahead of them, wrapped in the same darkness swallowing Earth, where the crew of the ship that came before them left one final warning:

Do not look into the clouds.

Kris has crossed the distance of space for his daughter.

But the planet is already taking the one thing he cannot afford to lose.

Her face.

INTERVAL. A film about love, time, and the maps we make with our memories.

The only way home is to not forget.

A Film Born From Survival

INTERVAL began in the summer of 2017, during production on Jason's previous film GLASS — a multi-award winning short that screened at festivals from Los Angeles to Australia. A new idea was forming: a space film about what space does to the human heart when you are impossibly, irreversibly far from the people you love.

Then Jason's own life nearly ended. A drug interaction triggered by his multiple sclerosis treatment left him completely quadriplegic — his lymphocyte count had dropped to zero. Five months in hospital. Months more in rehabilitation. There were days when it did not look like he was going to survive.

Then, in a hospital room headphones in he opened his notes again and started to cry. Not from grief. From recognition. The story was still there. He has been writing it ever since. INTERVAL is now in its 30th draft.

Jason continues to work on this film from his wheelchair, managing advanced MS. He is not making this film in spite of everything he has been through. He is making it because of it.

How We Are Making This Animatic

We are using the same professional-grade virtual production tools now used by major studios and building a pipeline that will carry directly into the full film.

Unreal Engine + MetaHuman

Every character will be built using Epic Games' MetaHuman technology photorealistic characters capable of expressing the emotional nuance this story demands: grief, fear, love, the specific terror of watching someone you love disappear.

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Rokoko Facial Capture — Real Actors, Real Performances

Professional voice actors will perform every role wearing Rokoko's head-mounted facial capture camera. Their live facial data every micro-expression, every flicker of emotion will be streamed directly onto the MetaHuman characters in real time. Actor-driven performance capture that preserves what makes human performances irreplaceable.

Dedicated Human Animation

A dedicated animator will handle all full-body human performance across the film — working from the facial capture data as a foundation and building out the physicality of each character.

Unreal Virtual Camera — Jason Directs From His iPad

Jason will operate Unreal Engine's virtual camera system from his iPad — moving through fully rendered 3D environments in real time, directing camera the way he always has. The technology bends to the director, not the other way around.

This is a fully human-made film. No generative AI. Every frame shaped by the hands, voices, and performances of real people.

Where Every Dollar Goes

Full transparency on the $38,392 animatic budget:

PEOPLE

3D Production, Cinematography, Editing, Audio — 3 mo. — $9,000.00

MetaHuman Animator — 3 mo. — $7,500.00

Director's Fee — 3 mo. — $4,500.00

Voice Actors (facial capture + dialogue) — 6 — $6,000.00

3D Artist to build the INTERVAL Spaceship — 1 — $4,000.00

TECHNOLOGY & EQUIPMENT

Rokoko Facial Capture Headcams — 3 — $2,100.00

iPad — Unreal Virtual Camera — 1 — $2,291.64

Various 3D Assets — 1 — $3,000.00

ANIMATIC TOTAL — $38,391.64

The Road to the Full Film

The full production budget for INTERVAL is $345,198 — covering professional cast, full motion capture rigs, sound design, music licensing, and world-class 3D talent. We are also actively pursuing film grants through the Canada Council for the Arts, the London Arts Council, and other funding bodies.

This animatic is the proof that unlocks all of it. Every dollar raised here is a direct investment in making INTERVAL exist.

What You Receive as a Supporter

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— Carl Sagan

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