A Falls High graduate who is studying production management at Biola University in California is bringing her homework to her hometown.
Rachel Adams, FHS class of 2012, serves as unit production manager for the feature-length movie “Aventura,” which is set to begin filming in January.
A soup and pie supper, which will serve as a fundraiser for the project, will take place at 6 p.m. Saturday in the Evangelical Covenant Church Family Life Center.
The project is produced largely by students from Biola University’s Cinema and Media Arts department, where Adams is a film major specializing in production management, said a news release.
The film is about Finn, an idealistic filmmaker who learns his idol, actor/director Eliot Langhorne, will be a panelist at a film festival 500 miles from his home, described the release.
Finn sees this as a chance to spearhead an impromptu road trip production and demonstrate his worth as a filmmaker. He recruits his hesitant roommate, a mutual friend, and a cast of three Hispanic day-laborers for the journey. It takes some clarification for the crew to explain they do not have any electrical problems or an unpainted house that elicits the day laborers’ assistance. Rather, they wish for a week of their time and a performance for Finn’s script: “Revenge of Kin” — a groundbreaking, medieval western.
Amidst language barriers, broken equipment, and bounty hunters, the gang’s trip is riddled with surprises and events that test the troop’s teamwork, the release continued.
“It is a race against time for Finn and his posse in this wacky, narrator-driven comedy that points out that, no matter your endeavor, the people around you are the what hold the most value,” said the release.
All donations from Saturday’s event will go toward the film’s production costs. In addition to the meal, the event will feature a promo video, complete crew bios, and possibly a live question and answer period with the producers via video chat from Los Angeles.
