“CHANNELING” Real Time, Real Life Selfies Using Wearable (EYE) Contact Cameras
Forget monopods and today’s parity
gadgets because the future of live broadcast “selfies” is about to be seen in
“Channeling,” a visionary movie taking today’s social media to a new level,
using wearable eye-cast contact camera lenses that shows everything the human
eye can feast on real time that the audience can watch on their smartphones.
Set in a future that is just about
to happen, the mother of all live streams and updates unfold in “Channeling”
directed by first time director/writer Drew Thomas starring Taylor Handley
known for his roles in “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning” and “Battle
Los Angeles,” with interesting supporting cast that includes Kate French,
Skyler Day, Dominic DeVore, Ryan Walker and Landon Ashworth, “Channeling”
follows the lives of a young group of people broadcasting their daily lives to
the most number of audience possible and competing to reach viral hits no
matter what the cost.
The film starts with a car chase in
which Wyatt Maddox (Taylor Handley) is driving accompanied with Tara (Kate
French). We then later learn that this car chase ends fatally for Wyatt. The
story then continues with Wyatt's soldier brother Jonah (Dominic Devore)
returning home for the funeral. On discovering his brother's online existence
under the channel name Wyld_Life, Jonah decides to pose as Wyatt and reawaken
his channel in order to lure his killers.
Meanwhile, other online players and
selfie broadcasters such as high school student Ashleigh Maddox (Skyler Day)
the little sister of Wyatt and Jonah is at an impressionable stage where having
recognition and admiration from your peers seems like the most important thing
to give you a sense of belonging.
Director Thomas shares that even
though his movie tackles the extreme side of social media, “I didn’t feel that that
social media was to blame but that together with people it can be evil and
pervasive. But then I think that's how some people view social media, I find it
particularly annoying when 'friends' of mine post every minute detail of their
life – I definitely don't think I'll be tuning into livecasting channels in the
near future, well, not unless they are doing something exciting.”
Timely as today’s social landscape, “Channeling” had
been awarded Best Feature Film (Sci_Fi) at The London International Festival of
Science Fiction & Fantastic Film,
Best Feature Film at the Phoenix Film Festival and is the Official
Selection at the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival and Dances
With Films.
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