Washington, DC-April 2, 1998 Film Professionals under 30 unite sharing their experience gained from working on feature films such as Will Smith's Enemy of the State, Contact, Die Hard 3, and Absolute Power to launch their own cyber-drama entitled Third Meridian. The filmmakers, Sector 33 Productions and Black Magic Cinemaworks Corp., are shooting through April 9, 1998 at an 8,000 sq. ft. warehouse in Landover, Maryland. Media visits will be scheduled through April 9, 1998. Full crew production days run from 7:30 AM to 7:30 PM and visits scheduled at other times may also be arranged.

STORY: The film draws you into the dilemma of a young army scout, Taggart, as he stumbles upon the undisclosed research findings of a wiry resistant Doctor Williams. Taggart explores the upper level of the Doctor's ship to find only a forgotten lab covered with the frost of ten years on a lonely dark icy planet. However, life is found beneath a hatch to the lower level where the Doctor surprises Taggart at gunpoint. Doctor Williams asks him not to reveal her existence or research to his gritty Captain and others who may exploit and destroy the new life she has discovered in the ice before it has a chance to grow.

CREW: The Director, Gene Sullivan is an alumnus of American University and one of the owners of Sector 33 Productions. Sullivan's Sector 33 partner and Director of Photography for this project is Jamie Bradley. Japanimation influenced Production Designer, Tim Wilson of CyberStorm Digital (an African-American owned visual/special effects company) is also Vice President of Black Magic Cinemaworks Corp. another Washington-based film production company shooting since 1987. C. Eric McClain is the President and Post-Production Supervisor for the project. Black Magic and Sector 33 are joining forces to produce Third Meridian as they have for many of their past films such as Apple Crumb Panic (a 1993 Rosebud competition finalist coming soon to home video).

CAST: Taggart, Gordon W. Holmes' performance credits include appearances on NBC's Law & Order and Walt Disney's Angels in the Outfield. Holmes, brings a strong west and east-coast theatre background to the production as well as experience in film and stand-up comedy. Doctor Emily Williams, Ruthanne Gereghty's repertoire lists acting and dance performances with People's Court Productions, the New York Performance Alliance, and the New York Historical Museum as some of her recent highlights. Gereghty's credits dazzle you with 10 years of New York Theatre experience as well as her roles with many film and video production companies. Actors were cast after auditions in Washington, D.C. and New York, N.Y.

Models and sketches of the sets are available for viewing at the location as well as color photographs and black and white photographs. Print media may bring their own photographers and flash photography will be allowed under the direction of the media liaison. Interviews with the cast and crew in rooms off-set may also be arranged.