The Star Compass
dir. Grant Miller
2021
Running time: 13 min.
Film
An actor navigates mankind’s place in the world as he undertakes the role of a survivor in the post-apocalypse. Mired in existential uncertainty at the precipice of a crumbling socioeconomic landscape, his distinctions between fact and fiction become meaningless. As he takes on the role of a lonely nomad wandering the detritus of society, he begins to understand the fragility of life and the meaning of a civilization to which we have become gradually more indifferent.
Grant Miller
Grant Miller is a writer and editor from St. Louis, Missouri. He has been shooting short films since 2015, with an emphasis on chaotic, anarchic elements and character-driven storytelling. With a passion for filmmaking that extends back into his childhood, Miller has dreamed about turning his everyday surroundings into meaningful cinema for more than a decade. He will be graduating from the University of Missouri in the spring of 2021 with a degree in documentary journalism, after which he will get to work on producing a feature-length screenplay that is collecting dust somewhere.
Credits:
Director: Grant Miller
Written by: Grant Miller
Edited by: Grant Miller
Produced by: Grant Miller, Michael Sigillito, Evann Twitchell, Robert Greene and Stacey Woelfel
Executive produced by: Harrison Zohner
Starring: Michael Sigillito
Cinematography by: Grant Miller
Music by: Grant Miller
Technical Info:
Shooting format: 2K
Screening formats: 2K
Spoken language: English
Subtitles: none
Frame Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: Stereo
Method M Films contact details:
Stacey Woelfel, director
243 Walter Williams Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
(573) 882-0698
woelfels@missouri.edu
Festivals/Awards:
2019 Stronger Than Fiction Film Festival - Columbia, Missouri