Seattle-Based MindRiot Entertainment is teaming up with Panama’s Hypatia Films for the “Search of Atlantis” documentary
Seattle-Based MindRiot Entertainment is
teaming up with Panama’s Hypatia Films for the “Search of Atlantis” documentary
According to
MindRiot co-founder and chief creative officer Jonathan Keasey, Dr. Rubin
passed on other Hollywood suitors as he liked MindRiot’s approach to the
content and the fact that it had marshalled the support of multiple
universities, including deep sea explorer Don Walsh, the honorary president of
the Explorers Club, and even European authorities, given the maritime
jurisdiction of Rubin’s site in the Atlantic Ocean.
Source:
Variety Magazine
Seattle-based
MindRiot Entertainment is teaming up with Panama’s Hypatia Films, an associate
producer of Claire Denis’ Cannes Grand Prix winner “Stars at Noon,” on the
groundbreaking documentary, “In Search of Atlantis,” based on the findings of
Seattle native Dr. Jason Rubin who has used deductive reasoning, the writings
of philosopher Plato and the most advanced satellite sonar imagery to pinpoint
the location of the fabled lost island of Atlantis.
The productions will be presented in the 70th San Sebastian Festival of Gipuzkoa, Spain.
Keasey, who
plans to attend the festival, first begun collaborating with Hypatia Films, run
by Pituka Ortega Heilbron, on WWII drama “Down Wind.” The WGA
screenwriter-producer has drafted the screenplay with its director, Guatemala’s
Jayro Bustamante (“La Llorona,” “Ixcanul”), helping to polish the Spanish
dialogue of the mainly English-language script.
“Though the
film is based on New Mexican source material, the subject matter once again has
tendrils that reach into MindRiot’s home turf, this time the nuclear plant in
Hanford, Washington, whose scientists created the plutonium for ‘Trinity’ and
the detonation of the first atomic bomb in 1945,” said Keasey. “I knew the film
needed a writer and producing partner with a deep and embedded understanding of
the regional material. MindRiot was that U.S. partner,” said Ortega Heilbron.
These are just
two of the multiple projects brewing at MindRiot, which has built a slate of
interesting projects from its Pacific Northwest base. “Washington State is
bursting with creative talent, beyond just tech tycoons, as well as ideas and
stories, with no real access to the development arms of the studio system,”
said Keasey who co-wrote MindRiot’s first film, “Parallel,” with its stars
Aldis Hodge (DC Comics’ “Black Adam”) and Edwin Hodge (“The Tomorrow War,”
“FBI: Most Wanted”). For MindRiot, “Parallel,” now in post, has become its
first bridge to Hollywood.