‘Meet Me At The End Of It All’ short by QC filmmaker featured in Alternating Currents

Some Quad City area natives are excited to bring their hard work to the big screen.

The Last Picture House in downtown Davenport will host 26 movies from student films, documentaries, short narratives to feature films all weekend.

The cast and crew of “Meet Me at the End of it All” call this short feature “their little film that could.” It’s being featured in four other film festivals.

“So, ever since I heard that Alternating Currents was starting in the Quad Cities, I knew I wanted to be a part of it. After going to film school and getting my degree, I thought, ‘Well, rather than let it catch dust on the shelf, why not put it to good use?'” says Our Quad Cities News newscast director Brandon Gale, who wrote and directed the film.

It’s a story about two strangers who own up to each other’s past as the world comes to an end.

“It’s kind of a bittersweet love story…i just kind of like the idea of how people would react if put in that position. If everyone were told the world is ending in two days, how would you react? I thought, how fun would it be to shine a light on these two characters?” Gale said.

“I just think it’s about human connection and how important it is. At the end of the day it’s like, ‘Who are those people you can hold onto?'” says actor Amelia Fischer.

“I fell in love with the story. I’m a big fan of romance and apocalyptic themes,” says cinematographer Mark Largo.

The team couldn’t waste much time using its limited resources filming for a day in a span of a couple hours.

“The time for the story was supposed to be at sunrise but we shot at sunset. As we were shooting, it was getting darker and darker and I said, ‘You know what, we can do some movie magic with this.’ As a cinematographer I have to interpret what’s in (the director’s) head,” says Largo.

“The director gives us the emotions and if we don’t originally lay a line down that has that emotion or what they’re going for, then they’re like, ‘Again, again. again.’ and you’re doing a few takes and it’s like we’re running against the sun, and we have to get this emotion and we’re tired and we have water and all this stuff. and to really get it all, what they need, in the time frame,” said Fischer.

“What i learned, truly from this experience is you cannot do everything just by yourself. i think that’s what made this special, we all brought in a little bit of ourselves and it was a team effort,” Largo said.

Admission is free for the film (and all other films) that will be shown at 8:30 p.,m. Friday, 6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Saturday.

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