Still image from ‘The Rapture’ with cast members Summer Olsson, Amy Baldwin, Joe Bocian and Mike Ostroski.
Our latest short film is are the middle of their festival run and getting good results. "The Rapture" screened at the 2012 Film Festival of Colorado as an official entry.
"I was really happy with the audience reactions," said screenwriter Rob Palmer. "The audiences were packed, and the crowds were very enthusiastic and got the dark comedy moments."
"Rob was smart to craft a story with the audience in mind," said director Scott Takeda. "The Rapture was topical with all of the recent news stories about prophets predicting the end of the world and our tip-of-the-hat to the long-term anxiety caused by our current economic crisis."
Earlier this spring, "The Rapture" also screened at the Taos Shortz Film Festival - one of the top shorts festivals in the nation.
"I was very excited about this," said Takeda. "Our executive producer Rachel Hroncich was able to pull some strings to get our film in front of the programmers, and they liked our irreverent style."