Bayview Entertainment has set Sept. 8 as the DVD
debut date for writer/director Danny Cotton’s award-winning dystopian tale, No More
Lights in the Sky.
This is the second film that Bayview Entertainment
has snapped up for domestic distribution from British filmmaker Danny Cotton … Soldiers
of Embers was just released on DVD on June
30.
Presented as something of a cinema verite document of what is transpiring in the United Kingdom
in the future. A reporter by the name
of Justin Truman (Monty Jordan — Fighting Heart, Soldiers of Embers) has
decided to prepare a video “documentary” of what has transpired in England
since the country made the decision to wall itself off from the rest of the
world — Hadrian's Wall, if you will, on a grand scale.
Chaos ensues, but the “Government,” operating under
the “Rehabilitation Act,” has a solution.
They, meaning the government, have developed a special drug that not
only tamps down common diseases but has a “calming” effect on those who take
it. Healthy … Zombie … Work Force.
Truman wanders the countryside documenting what he
sees — he acts as sort of an advocate, asking questions, more questions … but
gets precious few answers. He also
discovers that those who refuse to submit to the process are dealt with, often
in a violent way, or they simply disappear.
With No More Lights in the Sky, filmmaker
Danny Cotton has constructed a half-sci-fi, half-documentary, that serves as a
thought-provoking vehicle to get audiences to think about small things that
happen today, in the moment, which can have profound consequences going
forward.
Ironically, Cotton may have actually created
something of a film metaphor for what is actually unfolding in Hong Kong at
this very moment … China, walling this former British enclave off from the rest
of the world. Those who disobey are
dealt with … or they simply disappear.
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