Local Woman Still Missing

A new experimental thriller by Vanessa Query and Lee Johnson.
Music by Michael Casselli.
Starring Annie Branning, Lee Johnson, and Vanessa Query.

A young man is mysteriously drawn to a library book, tucked into which is a 30-year-old newspaper clipping about a missing woman. An every-day visit to the library becomes a life-changing experience as the man sees visions of the woman struggling to escape an unseen villain, and the library is not all it seems to be. Haunted by both the woman and the unknown foe, the man gives chase. Can he find the woman, through time and space, and save her? Who is he really chasing—the woman, her spirit, or something else entirely?

• Opened the Ohio Horror Fest in October 2010.
• Screened at the Yellow Springs Short Film Festival in February 2011.
• Screened at the Clones Film Festival in October 2011.

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cast & credits

story by Vanessa Query, with Lee Johnson and Michael Herington
direction – Vanessa Query
art direction – Lee Johnson
producer & editor – Vanessa Query
starring Annie Branning and Lee Johnson
with Michael Casselli • Andy Nall • Chelle Palassis • Chenoa Siegenthaler
stunts by Vanessa Query
shot on location in Yellow Springs, Ohio

newspaper clipping (click for full)