Piercing Brightness

Starring: Jennifer Lim, Tracey Brabin, Bhasker Patel, Chen Ko, Derek Siow, Houda Echouafni.
Directed by Shezad Dawood.
Screenplay by Kirk Lake.
Produced by Kate Parker.
City Projects/In Certain Places/Ubik Productions/Soda Pictures.
Sound Track and featuring music by:
Makoto Kawabata, Acid Mothers Temple and Alex Tucker.

**Piercing Brightness is a “Film based entirely on fact based research”, a science fiction drama.**
Two young people land in a spaceship outside Preston. Their mission is to re-establish contact with the Glorious 100 who were sent to earth millennia ago in human form to study and observe the development of another race. The pair make contact with one of the 100 and discover that their kind embedded in the local community have become corrupted and forgotten their original purpose.
The screenplay was inspired by stories gathered in and around Preston, Lancashire. The county has the highest number of UFO sitings in the UK and has one of the earliest Mormon communities. Piercing Brightness is an allegorical science fiction film that takes Preston and its inhabitants as a backdrop in which characters investigate religious, racial and class based social hierarchies.
Feature Film.

© UBIK Productions 2013 Piercing Brightness is a sci-fi film that plays on the border of narrative and experimental film-making, a directing debut by internationally acclaimed artist Shezad Dawood. Two youths land in a spaceship outside Preston. Their mission: to re-establish contact and effect the retrieval of the Glorious 100 sent to earth millennia ago in human form to study and observe the development of another race. After making contact with one of the 100, now a Pakistani shopkeeper (Bhasker Patel) they discover that many of their kind have become corrupted, forgetting their original purpose and slowly becoming influenced by and in turn influencing their adopted home…