A stargazer from another planet named LUX dreams about her mysterious interstellar origins until one day she awakens to the crash of NASA's Voyager 1 probe which carries onboard a truly out of this world golden mixtape.
Watch on Vimeo for Uncompressed High Res! I feel the film is viewed at night on a big screen! Like all good stargazing!
https://vimeo.com/blakerizzo/luxshortfilm
A long time coming to make this film! Read more about how we made it on my website!
Website: https://www.blakerizzofilm.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RizzoBlake
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/instagrahamcrackers_br/
Music by Kris James
Check out his YT channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrVY9scWNiq3UutTM1t-ung
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FULL CREDITS
Written, Directed, and Visual Effects by Blake Rizzo
CAST
LUX
Jordan Kerslake
Juno
Violet Bruno
Luna
McKenna Donahue
CREW
Producer
Alexis French
Story Consultant:
Alexander Xavier James
Assistant Director:
Nicole Radar
Naitrai Iriumi
Jonah Neuss
Maisie Harrington
Eli Gallagher
Emily Fortuna
Matthew Grega
Parker Singh
Brian Liu
Visual Effects:
Lead Compositor
Blake Rizzo
Modeler
Kyra Bautista
Additional Animation
Diana Wang
Additional Keying Work
Brian Liu
Art Department
Costume + Hair + Makeup
Lindsey Nelson
Hair + Makeup
Sommer Weeks
Story Boards
Alaina Kwan
Makeup:
Daniel Twitchel
Golden Record
Cindy Chen
Sound
Darra Bunkasem
Blake Rizzo
Paul Stovall
Music
Composed by Kris James
Additional Songs:
In the Field
Kris James
Paul Stovall
Lantern Dream
Paul Stovall
Head in The Stars:
Vocals and Lyrics by Hannah Flores
Composed by Paul Stovall
Guitar by Naitra Iriumi
Footage UsED
Nasa
Daniel Simon
Jeffry Beach
Encyclopedia Britannica
Gordon McDowell
A Trip to The Moon by George Melies
Universal News
Indiegogo Sponsors
Navid Azodi, Ryan Kim, Maya Geddes, Neda Gallagher
Tam Dang, Jeff Hendricks, Arina Wu, Carol-Ann Lucas
Elizabeth Marshall, Lindsey Nelson, Kyle Knies, Janet King
Mike and Lily Sweet, Christine Wolf, Gavin, and Lisa Upton
Lily Ann French, Mark French, Dev Sen, Jennifer Dye,
Lynn Davis, Jason Snow, Meghan Cowen
Special Thanks
Hannah Palin
Bedia Olsen (My Grandma)
Deschutes National Forest
Suzzallo Libraries
UW League of Astronomers
Oliver Fraser
Mom and Dad for supporting me!
All friends and family
LUX: Film Production Club
Animation Capstone
Barbara Mones
Cinema and Media Studies
Jennifer Bean