After a dream about a murder scene, a professor discovers a pregnant woman in her house. When she enters, details about the crime resurface.
Director, writer and producer David Leidy (born July 2, 1991 in Muscatine, Iowa) is an award winning visual storyteller (Best Director Winner at Action on Film MegaFest and Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards) who dives deep into mystical realms to bring forth metamorphosis. He is Eidetic Pictures and Palm Vine Media Founder along with being a Founding Member of cinema society Delta Kappa Alpha (DeKA) where Spielberg, Hitchcock and Lucille Ball were members.
After receiving coverage from Fox News, his feature documentary premiered to a sold out mega screen theater at Landmark Theatres. In Los Angeles, he worked as an assistant for Emmy award winning Best Director Justin Lerner (Automatic Hate, Official Selection at SXSW) who would become his mentor. Soon after, Leidy wrote and directed Atonia which had over a hundred team members leading to such opportunities as cowriting Paradise starring indie celeb Cortney Palm (Zombeavers).
Writing many published articles for Washington Square News both on its online websites and print newspaper as well as hosting classic cinema screenings and events as DeKA Cinema Literacy and Professional Chair, Leidy soon graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature and Creative Writing minor from NYU College of Arts and Science. Leidy later audited a theater acting class taught by playwright Lyle Kessler (Orphans starring Alec Baldwin) where SAG and Actors Studio members would perform scenes from Broadway plays that Kessler would workshop.
His films have been awarded, screened and distributed domestically as well as in Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Russia, India and Belgium. He has won awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Editor and his films have been awarded for Best Mystery and Best Cult Classic Film. Aside from these awards, they have been Finalists and Official Selections at such festivals as Gold Movie Awards, Los Angeles Film Awards, Rome Independent Prisma Awards, ARFF Berlin International Awards and Big Apple Film Festival and Screenplay Competition. His short films have screened in such renown theaters as Cinemark 18 & XD, Brenden Theatres at Palms Hotel and Laemmle Noho 7.
His films have received such reviews as a “disturbing and visually powerful short film” that “never wastes a second” by Independent Shorts Awards and Cult Critic Film Magazine and “the greatest experimental film I have ever seen […] such an edge of your seat mystery that keeps you guessing at every turn [which] not many directors could bring to life” by Olympus Film Festival judges.