Fresh Films’ teen sci-fi adventure feature, “Traveling Without Moving” premieres Tuesday, Nov. 1 at a non-traditional venue: Von Steuben High School, where many of its students, along with 300 other teens throughout the city, worked on its production.
Producer Kelli and director Estlin Feigley of Dreaming Tree Films, started non-profit Fresh Films, now based at Augustana College in Rock Island, in 2002, as a way to teach teens the many STEM skills needed behind-the-camera to produce a film.
Colin Costello wrote the screenplay, based on director Estlin Feigley’s idea and on real quantum physics and the science of wormholes. Scientists from NASA, the University of Chicago and the Adler Planetarium helped to ensure its scientific accuracy.
The story is about three teens on a mission to find their parents in another world. It shot in Chicago for eight weeks in July and August, 2015.
Steve Guttenberg (“Police Academy) and Harry Lennix (“Man of Steel”) star amid a cast of 30, with Congressman Bill Foster, the only physicist in Congress, making a cameo.
“The film is meant to inspire kids’ curiosity about physics, science and technology,” says Estlin Feigley. “It’s amazing to see elected officials, leading scientists and AfAmEdFilms http://sites.ed.gov/whieeaa/ on board with, and excited about, a project that inspires kids’ interest in the world around them through a purely entertaining story.”
Subway and Best Buy are hosting “Traveling Without Moving” in more than 30 middle and high schools across the country. The assemblies include visits by film professionals and scientists.
A national theatrical/multiplatform release is expected within the next few months.
Von Steuben High School is located at 5039 N. Kimball; screening at 5:30 p.m.
