Decaying Orbit is an independent film

Independent film

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 directed by Tim Pyle and produced by Hogofilm, LLC., a production company in Southern California

Southern California

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. It was filmed in the San Fernando Valley

San Fernando Valley

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, with hundreds of CG

Computer graphics

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 special effects produced in-house by Hogofilm.

Plot outline

When a mysterious explosion destroys a space station on the edge of the galaxy, five survivors manage to board an escape shuttle. Left adrift without communications, food, or any means of leaving the system, the survivors are forced to work together to survive. But soon evidence surfaces that one of them may actually be the saboteur that caused the station's destruction. Can the dysfunctional group band together long enough to be rescued, when no one knows who they can trust?

Availability

In 2007, the film was sold to Arsenal Pictures http://www.imdb.com/company/co0176772/ for distribution to Japan and Brazil. In 2008, Angerman Distribution http://www.angermandistribution.com picked up the film for distribution in Australia and New Zealand. The film was distributed on DVD in the U.S. through Hogofilm, LLChttp://www.hogofilm.com.

Awards

The film was nominated for three awards at the 6th annual Shockerfest Film Festivalhttp://www.shockerfest.com/2007/winners.htm: Best Sci-Fi Feature Film, Best Actress in a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film (Osa Wallander), and Best Actor in a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film (Andy Allen). Osa Wallander won the Best Actress award.

The film was also nominated for Best Feature Film at the 2007 Terror Film Festival http://terrorfilmfestival.net/_wsn/page6.html.

Cast and crew

Writer/director Tim Pyle

Tim Pyle

Tim Pyle is a filmmaker based in Southern California. He currently produces a number of animations for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and is a principal in an independent production company, Hogofilm....

 worked for 10 years as an animator in the visual effects industry. He worked on the Academy Award nominated Jimmy Neutron, Emmy nominated series Starship Troopers: the Series

Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles

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, and the Emmy winning Children of Dune

Children of Dune

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. He has personally won two Aegis Awards, a Telly

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 Award, a CINE

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 Golden Eagle, and 2006 & 2008 NASA

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 awards for producing CG

Computer graphics

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 animation.

Actress Denise Gossett is the founder of Shriekfest

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, a Los Angeles-based horror/sci-fi/fantasy film festival. She has appeared in numerous TV and film productions including Veronica Mars

Veronica Mars

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, Drake & Josh

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, and Zoey 101

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Actor David Paterson has appeared in many TV & film productions including the series Lost

Lost (TV series)

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, The Bold and the Beautiful

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, and the long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours

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