Spooky Action

Coming in October 2024

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Logline: There’s no time like the future.

Synopsis: Time travelers kidnap a 1990s NASA scientist and loop him into the future in order to steal his anti-aging research. Meanwhile his wife suffers a sexual identity crisis and becomes the prime suspect in his disappearance.

Spooky Action is a story about time. Some things seem impervious to time, immutable, while others appear to either elongate or shorten it. In other words, time is a finite measure, but its relativity is philosophical. That’s the inspiration for this project. Both love and faith are enduring qualities that share elements of reality and imagination. Each requires belief and devotion. Our lives follow this unpredictable rhythm. As a parent, your child-raising time flies by. The loss of a loved one causes you to pause and reflect. Time, then, is relative to emotion. Our history also follows this rhythm. We are all time travelers of a sort. Think of what has transpired in your lifetime and what you have learned. Regret is human. If you could view your life from a fresh perspective, what would you correct? Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (famously known for his cat) described quantum entanglement as: “Two interacting objects, observer and observed, woven into one.” Science cannot determine what lies underneath our observations. Entanglement may be responsible for keeping objective reality behind a veil in human experience. The trouble with time is its relentless persistence. The trouble with life is its resistance to time’s cold reality. As Amelia says: “Destiny has a way of finding people.” Quantum Entanglement asks: is this experience real or imagined?

“Spooky Action” 104 minutes, 1.85:1, Stereo, distributed by X4

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SPOOKY ACTION STARRING ALI BILL HANNAH SEUSY MANDY BROWN DOUG HARRIS WITH JORDAN ALLEN BELL MARK KOENIG ARTHUR AULISI JOHN HIGGINS GABRIEL VAUGHAN PRODUCTION DESIGN BY AMANDA STRASSLER MUSIC BY BRIANNA WIEGAND ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS CATIE GRANT AND ERIN RYAN DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY MARK STITZER PRODUCED & EDITED BY MAURA E. SHEA WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY ROD BINGAMAN © Ma & Pa Pictures LLC 2024

Ma & Pa Pictures

Rod Bingaman & Maura Shea launched Ma & Pa Pictures, LLC in 1999 to produce work with alumni and students at Penn State’s Bellisario College of Communication. They’ve made five feature films in the last 25 years: A Holiday Affair (Audience Award, 2000 Brooklyn FF); Hooray for Mister Touchdown (2005, Goliath Arts/Access Media Group); Chasing Butterflies (2009, Anderson Media/Vanguard); Ripped! (2015, Monarch Films); and Spooky Action (Best Feature under $250K, INYFF 2023).

They began their professional careers in Boston, MA, and share experience in directing, editing, sound design and cinematography as well raising two beautiful daughters.