Category: Film

Films produced by Forward Motion Productions — features, shorts, documentaries.

  • Key To My Destiny

    Key To My Destiny

    A period piece set in the 1990s. Clay is in his senior year of college, raised in a pro-Black household and at home inside the world he grew up in. A sociology assignment pairs him with Destiny, a white classmate from an open, churchgoing family, for one week: stay close, document what you do, watch how the other person reacts, and report back on what you share and what you don’t.

    The week turns the assignment back on him. What starts as a class exercise becomes the first honest look he has taken at himself, and at the world he was brought up in.

  • The In Between

    The In Between

    A son moves back home to an overbearing mother who worries he doesn’t have a life of his own. She pushes him to get out, meet women, do the things he would never do on his own. He goes along with it, and the trying goes about as well as you would expect, until he meets one of her clients and the two of them click.

    For a while he is exactly what his mother asked for. Then he understands she never meant this woman. The closer he and the client get, the harder his mother pushes the other way, and he is left choosing between the life she talked him into and the one part of it he actually wants.

  • Field Recordings

    Field Recordings

    A four-part anthology shot in the off-season at four American national parks, each chapter scored by a different composer working from on-location field recordings.

    In development. Production begins next spring.

  • Cassette Era

    Cassette Era

    An archival short, assembled entirely from home-recorded VHS and cassette material, tracing a family band that toured the American Midwest between 1981 and 1994.

    Released to streaming with a re-mastered original soundtrack.

  • Northing

    Northing

    A documentary on the land surveyors who walk a single longitude line from the Gulf to the Great Lakes, mapping how the country has reshaped itself in fifty years of erosion, sprawl, and recovery.

    Currently in post-production. Theatrical and festival submissions begin late next year.

  • The Slow Hour

    The Slow Hour

    A quiet feature about a night-shift custodian who works the empty floors of a regional television station, and the host whose late-night broadcast he listens to alone.

    Shot over twenty-two nights in a decommissioned studio, with original score performed live to picture.