Believe it or not, smaller movies used to make a big splash at Comic-Con. You’d stumble across a little genre movie and then a couple decades later the writer/co-star would be the co-head of DC Studios. So you should be on the look-out for gems, especially at more formalized Comic-Con International Film Festival.
In addition to the previously covered “I Know What You Need,” there’s an interesting-looking sci-fi movie screening Saturday the 27th at 12:35 pm in the Marriott Marquis Grand Ballroom 6, Our Man in L.A. A feature written during COVID to be filmed and acted by only one person on each side of the camera, it looks like a possible tense little film that could springboard its makers to something even bigger. Utilizing a variety of cameras and software, it’s a one-hander that takes an alien technology dealer through a nightmare in which reality and virtual reality collide. Written by and starring Guy Birtwhistle and directed by Joshua Sowden, Our Man in L.A. just might be the gem you’re looking for.
Coincidentally, “Our Man in Los Angeles” is what they used to call me on the BBC Radio-Humberside programme “The Late License with David Reeves.”
