Genre: Drama, Suspense, Adventure
Music: Josh Hill
Student project: Each student was given a title and list of actors/roles, we were then free to interpret the story and genre in our own way.
Synopsis
When a 12-year-old boy solves a mathematical equation that proves the theory of space-time jumping.
The year is 2020, a young 12 year old boy is playing in a park near his home, located on the upper east side of New York City. The young boy is Jules Everett, (Julio Brannon) he is a very quiet boy and keeps mostly to himself. Although Jules never pays much attention in class during school, he has an uncanny affinity for numbers mathematics and the ability to understand complex theories. While sitting in Science class one day, lost in his own world, Jules sat there scribbling down equations and calculations, which looks like nonsense to the average person. His teacher Mr. Vernon, (Nick Gambroll) was walking around the classroom when he noticed the Jules’ scribbles. As he looked closer he saw something remarkable yet familiar, the boy had figured out the missing link to an equation he and a team at NASA had been working on for several years. Mr. Vernon does contract work with NASA from time to time. The team has been working on a secret project code named “Hopscotch,” a spaceship that in theory will take a single passenger into space, and using a devised equation will jump through space. Bringing space-time to a single point and instantly traveling to another point in the universe, more commonly referred to as time jumping.
With the finished equation completed by Jules, NASA is ready for the mission. They send Becka Travern (Janyce Denzer) into space on a 30-day mission. She is to jump to coordinates in space and record her exploration. She comes back to earth, and is greeted by Jules’ son Samuel, who is now 65 years old. The year is 2099.
Nominated for the AAF CincinnADDY 2015-2016 People’s Choice Award.
Length: 1 minute, 49 seconds