Shelter - Press Pack - shelter-movie

last updated: 1/07/13

Joyce Hshieh as CHELSEA
Michael Lane as
Sarah Street as
Jeff Green as
Carlos Garcia as
Written and Directed by
Music Composed and Orchestrated by
Production Design by
Cinematography by
Edited by
Executive Producers
Produced by
Runtime: 96 minutes
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Format: HD Digital Video
This film has not been rated
HUDSON
MARISA
JEFF
TYLER
Associate Producer Santana Bobo
Adam Caudill & Wrion Bowling
Noam Levy
Amy K. Spencer
Chad Kean & Jinwei Zeng
Adam Caudill & Wrion Bowling
Bill Bowling and Gary Caudill
Adam Caudill & Wrion Bowling
Filmed in 2010
Completed in 2012
Produced by Afflicted Pictures
www.shelter-movie.com

Sirens. A blinding flash.
Silence.
Then, the realization:
They had survived,
and they were alone.
An ominous disaster forces five survivors
to wait out nuclear winter in a secret
underground bomb shelter. With limited
supplies and nowhere else to go, they
struggle against the clock, uncertain if
they’ll survive until it’s safe to return to
the surface.
Chelsea (Joyce Hshieh) and Hudson
(Michael Lane), two natural leaders,
fight to maintain social order. Introverted
Jeff (Jeff Green) develops a strict
routine to ensure long-term survival while
his wife Marisa (Sarah Street) strives
to inject spontaneity into their painfully
predictable lives. Rookie security guard
Tyler (Carlos Garcia) longs for his
daughter whose fate on the surface is
unknown.
As weeks turn into months, one room
proves too small for five people. Social
norms break down in their one-room
civilization where privacy is extinct.
Habits curdle into routine, relationships
dissolve, obsessions give way to
madness.
When Tyler announces his plans to
return to the surface to find his daughter,
the group must decide whether to let him
leave and risk contamination or keep him
underground against his will. Trapped not
only with each other but with the
consequences of their actions, the
survivors must ask themselves: Is their
underground life worth preserving at all?

T H E MA K I N G OF
S H E L T E R
Beginning in early 2010, Shelter took just over two years from conception to screen.
Wrion Bowling and Adam Caudill formed Afflicted Pictures with the goal of producing
their first independent feature film. Having developed a history of ambitious projects
and successful collaborations throughout their education at Ohio University, they
started writing their first script together in February of 2010, focusing on a premise that
would allow them to produce the film despite financial and logistical limitations: a
dialogue-heavy story about five characters in a single interior location.
Building their own set in Akron, Ohio, Wrion and Adam recruited a cast and crew as
ambitious and passionate about the project as they were. They shot over three weeks
in the fall of 2010. The crew composed of colleagues, friends and family worked long
hours, diligently taking advantage of having their own studio for the first time.
Production designer Amy Spencer brought their 900-square-foot set to life, producing
dozens of props, costumes, and set dressings on a shoestring budget.
Cinematographers Chad Kean and Jinwei Zeng crafted the look of the film, developing
a shooting style that accommodated more than 750 setups in the 18-day shooting
schedule.
Shelter is a film that would not have been possible to make without recent
technological innovations. Adam lives in Columbus, Ohio, while Wrion lives in New
York City, so they collaborated on the script via video chat and file-sharing services.
The cameras required to produce a quality high-definition image would have been
prohibitively expensive as recently as five years ago. Almost all of the post production
was completed on the directors’ personal computers, 500 miles apart. Now that the
barrier for entry has been so dramatically lowered, the filmmakers are excited to see
what kind of projects will continue to emerge.

JOYCE HSHIEH - CHELSEA
MICHAEL LANE - HUDSON
SARAH STREET - MARISA
Joyce Hshieh is originally from Canal Fulton, Ohio where her
first acting roles were in high school musicals. She lives and
works in Chicago where she earned her B.F.A in acting from
the Theatre School at DePaul University in 2010. Since
graduating, she has participated in several readings and
staged productions of contemporary, international plays
around Chicago. In addition to her feature film debut in
Shelter, Joyce is also starring in the upcoming independent
film Murder! A Love Story.
Michael Lane was born in Texas where he grew up playing
sports and participating in local theater. After winning the
International Modeling and Talent Agency’s “Actor of the
Year” award, he trained with Katheryn Gately and Richard
Poole in Chicago and Anthony Abeson and Cay Michael
Patten in New York City. Shelter is Michael Lane's feature
film debut. His other credits include leading roles in the web
series Raptor Hunter and Nightwing Escalation, as well as
guest starring in NTV’s The World’s Most Astonishing News!
Born and raised in Cork, Ireland, Sarah Street began acting,
singing and dancing at a young age. She moved to New
York City after receiving a scholarship to the New York
Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. Her other credits include
performing in leading stage roles with the New York Irish
Center, voiceover work for Howcast.com, a nationwide video
and print advertising campaign for NBC, and numerous short
films. She also performs regularly around NYC with her
musical improv group "Petting Zoo." Shelter is Sarah's first
leading role in a feature film.

JEFF GREEN - JEFF
CARLOS GARCIA - TYLER
Jeff Green got his first taste of acting on his high school
stage in Clarkston, Michigan. He has studied acting in New
York City with Adam Hill and Pete Mattaliano as well as
improving his craft in Bali, Indonesia. Jeff collaborated with
Quaddeuce Productions on several award winning shorts,
claiming first place in the FX Network Pilot Competition on
Filmaka.com. Shelter is Jeff’s first feature film.
Born and raised in Queens, New York, Carlos Garcia
attended Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan
and performed in an off-Broadway show for the City Lights
Youth Theatre. Since graduating from the New York
Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, he has appeared in
commercials for Nick at Nite and Puma, and several short
films. Shelter is Carlos’ feature film debut.
ADAM CAUDILL - WRITER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, EDITOR
A Cincinnati native, Adam pursued his passion for
storytelling and filmmaking at Ohio University with a focus on
writing, directing, editing, and visual effects. With a
reputation for ambitions productions that pushed themselves
beyond expectations, he won a Provost Undergraduate
Research Grant in 2006 to produce and direct his short
“Angel of Mercy.” Adam won the Roger E. Ailes award in
2007 and the Video Sequence award in 2008 - given to one
outstanding senior each year. Adam also edited the featurelength
documentary Breaking News, which featured Walter
Cronkite, Terry Anderson and Diane Rehm.

"Despite being a micro budget production, there's no need to grade
SHELTER on a curve. The writing and directing team of Adam Caudill and
Wrion Bowling have crafted a taut little thriller here that feels like an
episode of The Twilight Zone that's been stretched out to feature length
without feeling padded."
-Bob Ignizio, The Cleveland Movie Blog
"Working with limited resources but with a talented cast, tight script, and
qualified crew to create a solid film worthy of theatrical distribution;
SHELTER illustrates what true low-budget independent filmmaking is all
about."
-Bernadette Gillota, Independent Pictures