Must Watch: Josh Tanner’s The Landing
Sean Decker
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We told you about this one back in October: Josh Tanner’s stunning film The Landing, which took the award for Best Short Film at the venerated Screamfest film festival. And now we have it here for you in all its glory.
Revolving around a man who returns to the Midwestern farm of his childhood on a desperate mission to unearth the horrifying truth of what landed there in the summer of 1960, The Landing was produced and co-written by Jade van der Lei and Tanner and directed by the latter. It stars Henry Nixon, David Roberts, and Tom Usher.
Filmed in 2013 in Australia over the course of eight days on the Arri Alexa camera for approximately seventy thousand US dollars, The Landing was inspired, Tanner told us, “From a dream I had where I was unearthing a buried spaceship in the middle of farmland. I became obsessed with the idea of the suppression of a UFO landing by the farmers on the land which it came down on, opposed to a government cover-up. It was a great seed to build a story around and figure out when and how it got there and whose perspective it would be told from. I was inspired by a lot of the great paranoia sci-fi of the 50’s and unabashedly Spielberg, Kubrick, and Terrence Malick.”
For more info check out the film’s official site here, and “like” it on Facebook here.
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