THE VAST OF NIGHT
Narrative Feature | 90 minutes

HIFF 2018

 Narrative Competition

Directed by
Andrew Patterson

Produced by
Adam Dietrich, Melissa Kirkendall, James Montague

Written by
James Montague, Craig W. Sanger

Featuring
Sierra McCormick, Jake Horowitz, Gail Cronauer, Bruce Davis

2019 | English | USA

WINNER: Special Cinematography Award for Miguel Ioann Litten Menz

Special Jury Mention for Acting Performance for Sierra McCormick

With a summer night descending over 1950s New Mexico, the residents of a small town congregate for a high school basketball game. Amidst the action, the local radio DJ’s planned interviews with attendees are halted by the discovery of a strange frequency over the town’s airwaves by a local switchboard operator, leading the pair on an investigation deep into the darkness of their sleepy hometown. Paying loving homage to THE TWILIGHT ZONE and early Spielberg in equal parts, Andrew Patterson’s imaginative debut is a singular piece of original sci-fi, traveling through the unknown corners of our collective history.