Mission:
I want to create stories for the general audience from a Christian perspective. I want to leave the Ninety-Nine, and make movies for the one. The one who has strayed from, or maybe has never had any intention of understanding Christianity. If it doesn't bring them to church, then maybe at the very least, we can be a positive representation of Christianity.
Over 75% of Americans are Christians. I think in a country so divided we need to focus on what we do have in common, especially when the commonality is one full of peace, love, and Jesus Christ.
"The Waiting Game" is a story with a visual representation of the voice of God, and the voice of the enemy, telling us what to do in our life. It shows what happens when we listen to one, and shut out the other.
Logline:
A man suffering from memory loss, waits out the end of the world in the wilderness just outside his hometown.
Synopsis:
David walks along a woodland path unsure of who he is, and how he even got there. Haunting glimpses of a tormented childhood are the only thing he remembers. He looks down to see he is following a trail of blood. It leads to a cloth bag stuck to the side of a tree with a knife. He opens the bag and pulls out an old video camera. He opens the viewer, hits play, and his eyes widen as he sees the owner of the camera is himself.
He explains to the camera that he is suffering from memory loss, it is worsening, and he is running out of the only medication that ever helped him. Every day he remembers less about the previous day, and with his mental state cracking, he lives unsure of what is real. Out of desperation to survive he started recording everything to remind himself the rules of how to survive in the wilderness.
Rule one: Stay hydrated. Rule two: Stay inside at night no matter what. Which leads him to rule three. The reason why he must stay inside at night, and the reason he is in the wilderness to begin with. The camera looks out over a town. In the center of town, a pillar of light rises from the ground to the sky. Rule three: Don’t go to town until that light no longer shines.
One night David is haunted by lights and noises in the woods prompting him to take his final pill in an attempt to stay cognisant. The next day is his first day without medication, and he encounters two different people. The first is a mysterious man offering the cold hard "truth", that life as we know it is ending, and it is everyone for themselves. The other is a pregnant woman offering hope, and the idea that life will continue even after all of this. Feeling comforted by her, he tells her everything about himself and his mental state.
Things change when David tells the man about the woman. He fills David with doubt, making him think she might not exist at all. In order to show David what is real, and what is not, he offers a solution. He knows of a pharmacy. He can refill his prescription, and be set for a long time. That is if David is willing to break rule three.
