The Cinematic Schematic

LISTEN TO THE FULL INTERVIEW BY PUSHING PLAY ABOVE! It’s been four years since Planet Thunder Productions, writer/director Jacob Leighton Burns and producer Zachary Burns won deadCenter’s Best Oklahoma Narrative Feature Film in 2016. After next taking home the first-place prize from the 48-hour Film Project in 2016 with Let the Bodies Hit the Floor followed by their 2017 documentary about New View Oklahoma, Fleeting Light, many in the Oklahoma film community began wondering what their next genre project would look like. Two years of fundraising, a multi-part production and a world premiere event cut short due to the recent global pandemic later, the Burns brothers follow-up film, Shifter, finally makes its Oklahoma debut at this weekend’s deadCenter 2020 film festival. In part five of our ongoing Shifter Audio Diary series, found exclusively on The Cinematic Schematic podcast, we catch up with writer/director Jacob Burns and producer Zachary Burns to recount the impact the COVID-19 outbreak had on their world