Fateful Findings

Fateful Findings (2012)

A small boy discovers a mystical power as a child. He is then separated from his childhood girlfriend. He grows up to be a computer scientist who is hacking into the most secret national and international secrets, as well as being an acclaimed novel writer. His childhood 'finding' gives him amazing paranormal powers. He is reunited with the childhood girlfriend, mystically, on his hospital deathbed... as his relationship with his current drug addict girlfriend is deteriorating. The passions build between the threesome. Mystical, psychiatric and worldly forces rise to prevent him from revealing the hacked secrets. He attempts to reveal all in a Washington DC large press conference, with 'fateful' and dangerous consequences.

Date of release
2012-12-08
TMDB
4.3 / 10 (121)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Drama, Fantasy
Director
Neil Breen

Casting

Interesting facts

Fateful Findings is a 2012 American independent science fiction thriller film directed, written, produced, edited by, and starring Neil Breen, who was also in charge of production design, set decoration, makeup, sound editing, catering, and casting.

Production

Breen has said that, as with his earlier features, he self-financed Fateful Findings entirely with savings from his parallel career as a licensed architect, explaining that “the only way I’ll make movies is to finance them myself - if I waited for investors, they’d never get made.”

To keep the micro-budget under control, Breen wrote the screenplay around locations and props he already owned, then took on nearly every crew function himself - from production design and sound to catering - while still paying all cast and crew union-day rates.

Las Vegas public-radio critic Josh Bell notes that Breen's do-it-yourself model has allowed him to retain worldwide rights and sell DVDs directly, making the film “profitable on its own weird terms despite no traditional home-video deal.”

Paste Magazine later characterised Breen's approach as "egosploitation" - cinema made outside the industry in which the filmmaker “writes the check, plays the messiah and prints the DVDs at home,” but still manages to turn a small profit via niche theatrical bookings and direct sales.

Principal photography took place entirely in and around Las Vegas, Nevada, during late 2012. Breen shot in his own house, rented office suites and nearby desert scrubland, deliberately avoiding skyline shots so the setting would feel “mythic” and placeless.

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