When meteor storms bring a new life form to earth, global authorities implement emergency controls as they move in secret to eliminate the predators. A group of friends risk everything to survive as they come face to face with the monster.

Director Statement

How do you take a black swan event and use it to change the very nature and structure of humanity and connection? How does the small number of the global elite use genuine public fear and manipulate it to their own ends – to transfer extraordinary levels of wealth of power from the ordinary man or woman over to the minority global power elite? And where does that leave us? You and me? What should we do to oppose this destruction of our civil liberties and fundamental need for human connection?

Looking back on the last few years, one can’t help but ask ourselves if the most rampant virus has actually been the global rise and spread of authoritarianism.

TOUCHDOWN started in lockdown. It was born out of a determination to use the lockdown period to turn our current situation on its head. We decided to use the time to make a film with just our wits and existing resources. If all other projects have been shut down, let’s create something new. If there are constraints, let’s embrace them. If everyone is saying it’s not possible, let’s find a way to make it happen. And, here we are, much later, having shot ground and aerial footage during lockdowns remotely in LA, South Africa, Hong Kong, China, Thailand and India, as well as the UK.

The story is intended to speak of our time, but is not a lockdown film, or a Covid movie. In commercial terms, it’s grounded sci-fi. It’s about five friends who are separated in different countries across the world when a meteor shower brings down a new life form to earth. As governments seek to annihilate this presumed predator, the friends must decide whether they cower in place, or whether they face their fears and head out into the world to re-find each other.

Perhaps most significantly, however, what started as film to make at the outset of a pandemic has only grown in its meaning and relevance. The creeping growth of authoritarianism has become more and more relevant to the actions of the authorities in the film.