Time Journey Brief ‘Mobius Loop’ Finds Streaming House

A time-bending brief movie is winding its technique to the small display. Mobius Loop has been acquired by Watermelon Pictures, which is placing the brief on its new streaming service Watermelon+ beginning as we speak. It can be viewed here.

Mobius Loop hails from filmmaker Lee Mosa-Peterkin and spans three time intervals. There’s the Nineteen Seventies, with a scientist (Jay Abdo) discovering the flexibility to see the longer term. There’s years later, when the inventor is on his dying mattress. And there’s the current day, with the inventor’s granddaughter (Dalia Rooni) trying to unravel his expertise.

Mosa-Peterkin, who’s Palestinian-American, shot the movie in California over simply three days in November 2023 throughout the early days of the Gaza struggle throughout Israel’s bombing response to the Oct. 7 assaults.

“It was extremely challenging in October when we were deciding if we should go into production, because of the horrors coming out of Gaza,” he says. “My wife [producer and script supervisor Anna Dale-Meunier] and I struggled with the motivation to film anything. Then it felt like an obligation. Part of the purpose was to show the kind of protagonists Palestinians can be.”

The movie had a number of technical challenges, however initially was capturing three time intervals, every requiring their very own set design, wardrobe and props, and doing all of it in three days of filming. They shot in Elysian Park, Martin Sound in Alhambra and Pine Mountain Club, an hour and a half north of Los Angeles.

Mosa-Peterkin deliberate intently with cinematographer Jack McDonald, set designer Melissa Lyon and costume designer Nina Rocklin to drag it off. “I used 3D clones of real world locations in Unreal Engine to prep with department heads and create the shot list and map out lighting, set design and logistics. We would never have made our days and all the time periods work without it,” notes the filmmaker, who’s at present writing a feature-length model of the script.

Mobius Loop landed at Watermelon after making the pageant rounds final yr, taking house an honor on the Hollywood Arab Film Festival and screening at fests such because the Micheaux Film Festival and LA Shorts International Film Festival.

Watermelon Pictures is a brand new firm from brothers Badie and Hamza Ali, who’re centering their work round Palestinian tales. They backed the Oscar-nominated movie The Voice of Hind Rajab and among the many films they’ve within the works are the Palestinian horror characteristic The Visitor.

As for Mosa-Peterkin, he’s joyful to be with Watermelon. Says the filmmaker of the distributor’s pedigree: “I loved Palestine 36, The Teacher, All That’s Left of You and The Voice of Hind Rajab. All films from just the last year.”