Parity Pipeline

Parity Pipeline

Storage

Directed by Leslie McCleave

Worse than being trapped in your STORAGE locker with your ten-year old for a holiday weekend? being trapped with your ten-year old *and* a sinister shape-shifting creature that wants to annihilate your small family and escape to wreck havoc in the outside world.

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Synopsis

Everyone knows that modern storage spaces are creepy, they just are. Row upon row of nearly identical bright orange lockers, so hard to know where you are, so easy to get lost. But in STORAGE, this one really is creepy, housing not only the cast offs and forgottens but a truly sinister shapeshifting creature that prowls the cages. Amanda, a harried single mom and Quentin, her nerdy ten-year old visit their space to pick up things for a weekend trip and drop off stuff don’t have room for in their tiny NYC apartment. Accidentally trapped inside, they soon realize they are not alone. Friends think they are away, and no one will look for them until after the holiday. What was always a private joke about the unnerving nature of the place suddenly becomes painfully real and they must confront the creature and attempt to escape with their lives. Fun fact: they finally find a use for all that stuff in the lockers!

Bio

Leslie McCleave's first narrative feature the environmental thriller 'ROAD' won the Outstanding Performance Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival and was acquired by Showtime and iTunes. Her current film the documentary feature 'How Sweet the Sound – The Blind Boys of Alabama', premiered at the 2015 Nashville Film Festival and is currently touring the film festival circuit. Leslie's short narrative films 'Avenue X', 'Blixa Bargeld Stole My Cowboy Boots', and 'Meeting Marty' have screened at numerous festivals and venues including New Directors/New Films at the Museum of Modern Art, Berlin International Film Festival, Institute of Contemporary Art (London), Lollapalooza, and have received top awards at the Sundance, Locarno, San Francisco, and South by Southwest. Her work has been broadcast nationally and internationally on Sundance Channel, Showtime, Film Four UK, TV2000 and PBS. In 2011 she created the 5-screen, 9/11 documentary installation 'cedarliberty', with visual artist Elena del Rivero. 'cedarliberty' was presented at the International Center of Photography in New York City and at the New York State Museum in Albany. Her work has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Capital Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Irish Film Board and the Sundance Institute.