Project Skyquake

Project Skyquake (2022)

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After strange trumpet-like sounds in the sky have been reported at locations around the world, a wannabe journalist sets out to investigate with his best friend, but they soon find themselves facing an encounter with terrifying results.

Date of release
2022-10-04
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 12m
Genres
Science Fiction, Drama, Mystery
Director
József Gallai

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Hardangerfjord
  • Awards: 5 · Nominations: 0. Including: Vegas Movie Awards; International Motion Picture Awards; Black Swan International Film Festival; DRUK International Film Festival

Project Skyquake is a 2022 found footage science fiction film directed by József Gallai. It stars Laura Ellen Wilson as a student journalist who investigates unexplained trumpet-like sounds heard in the sky, a real reported phenomenon known as skyquakes, with Laura Saxon, and features Tom Sizemore, Robert LaSardo and Simon Bamford.

Production

Project Skyquake was written and directed by József Gallai, a filmmaker based in Veszprém. He told (re)Search my Trash that he was influenced by character-driven science fiction and mystery films carried by small casts, citing Monsters, The Endless, The Vast of Night and The Fare.

Gallai cast Laura Ellen Wilson and Laura Saxon, with whom he had worked on The Poltergeist Diaries and I Hear the Trees Whispering, for the chemistry between them, and traced his interest in casting Simon Bamford to renting Hellraiser on VHS as a child.

The Hungarian news site Promotions.hu reported that the film was shot in nine days in March 2022, and that only the two female leads were able to travel to Hungary for the shoot there; Gallai told the outlet that two small crews abroad recorded Sizemore's and LaSardo's scenes, while a third crew filmed in Norway with Aamaas. The guest performers were filmed remotely.

Bergens Tidende reported from the Norwegian shoot in April 2022. The newspaper described the filming of Aamaas's scenes as Professor Per Stokkebø around the Hardangerfjord, with the Folgefonna glacier visible in the background, and in a boathouse belonging to the Aamaas family at Kvam, photographed by Andreas Huseby Grønner and Farshid Amini.

Gergő Elekes served as cinematographer alongside Gallai, and also edited the film and composed its music and sound design; Fershid Emini and Andreas H Grønner are credited with co-cinematography and as lighting technicians, and Grønner additionally as sound recordist. Neil Rowe created the visual effects, Pete Baez operated camera, and János Élő handled props. Still photography was by Pál Marton and Bálint Szántó.

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