When their guru dies in a hiking accident, six strangers on a spiritual retreat find themselves hunted by their own fears and delusions … no one saves them.
It is a graphic, unflinching depiction of six people’s inner demons. Ultimately, the film serves as a meditation on desire, delusion and death – resolving in rebirth and redemption (perhaps a first for a horror film).
MANTRA is based on the director’s personal experiences practicing bardo death state mediations on a ten-day silent retreat with Buddhist monks in Dharamsala, India in 1998.
Principal photography was completed in mid-November 2008. Mantra is currently in post-production – to be completed in Spring 2009.
Director: Brian Wimer
Wimer is the director of one indie narrative feature (EAT ME!) and seven narrative shorts, which are currently in 24 international film festivals. He also has shot and directed two documentaries and over a dozen viral commercials. He is the recipient of twelve film awards.
Special Effects: Matthew Wallin
Formerly a digital compositor at Industrial Light and Magic, Wallin has produced visual effects for: STAR WARS EPISODE 1, JURASSIC PARK 2, KING KONG, BEOWULF, THE MATRIX, HELLBOY and the upcoming WATCHMEN.
Editor: Stephen Thomas
Thomas recently produced and edited YA HEARD ME, a documentary on the hip-hop “Bounce” scene in post-Katrina New Orleans. It premiered at The New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival in April.
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