The Other Side of Darkness

Set against the backdrop of the country’s largest electrical blackouts, a 16 year-old girl named Taylor Jo receives a mysterious birthday gift that leads her and her friends on an adventurous collision course towards a plot to dismantle America’s power grid.

Nearly 16, foster teen Taylor Jo dreams only about a vehicle she can call her own and the freedom of the open road. On her 16th birthday TJ receives a mysterious gift: A key to a storage unit. Inside, she discovers a Jeep Wrangler™ registered in her name.

Suspicious the gift may be from her birth family, she convinces her friends to join her on a road trip, despite the vast blackouts occurring around the country. Following clues left in the vehicle, the gang finds themselves in a small town in West Virginia, virtually cut off from the world. Discovering a shocking truth, TJ finds herself at the intersection of a plot to take down America’s power grid.

Blocked from all forms of emergency contact, the gang is put between a rock and a hard place. With the help of her friends, TJ must find the strength to face obstacles both internal and external to stop the spread of the blackout before it reaches critical mass. If they fail, more people will get hurt and the country could find itself more than 100 years into the past.

The Other Side of Darkness is an action-adventure film encompassing a young woman’s journey of self-discovery and finding the strength to overcome even the most challenging of obstacles.

MAGGIE CALLAHAN

Maggie Callahan is a soccer player turned actress. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio she spent her formative years competing on soccer fields all over the world. Despite her busy soccer schedule she contained a deep, life-long love for storytelling. Maggie went on to play collegiate soccer while also earning her BA in Theatre Arts from Case Western Reserve University. She has also been studying the Meisner Technique with Jessica Houde for two years. Her favorite movies are The Great Race, Before Sunrise, and Call Me By Your Name. She was honored to be able to portray such a strong, indefatigable young woman in The Other Side of Darkness and cannot wait to see the movie!

ADAM DEIERLING

Since the time he was 13 years old, Adam Deierling knew he wanted to make movies. From making Indiana Jones spoofs with his backyard friends, to epic lightsaber battles for high school projects. After graduating from Jackson High School in 2004, Adam moved to LA to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker. His thesis film, Genesis a sci-fi film about the Roswell UFO crash, was well received at many festivals. In 2006 he graduated from the Los Angeles Film School with a major in film directing and editing.

Adam moved back to Canton, Ohio in 2008 and started his production company, Saturn Entertainment Studios where he began filming weddings, commercials, and school plays. Since then, he has directed several shorts including the 2012 sci-fi film, The Great Void, to the critically acclaimed 2017 horror film, The Creature of Stark Hills.

In the summer of 2020, Adam and his producing partner, Vinny Sisson, set out to film an epic adventure film spanning across several unique shooting locations. The Other Side of Darkness is Adam’s first feature film. The film is Written, Directed, Edited, and Produced by Adam Deierling.

VINNY SISSON

Vinny Sisson is an award-winning independent film producer, director and director of photography, now based out of his home state of Ohio.

Vinny Sisson created his first short film at the age of 10. Falling in love with the medium, he followed in the footsteps of his father, an award-winning commercial video producer at the time, and set off to receive a formal education in film production. Vinny Sisson attended New York Film Academy in Los Angeles, where he then lived and worked for 10 years working in various roles in the film industry.

In 2012, Vinny directed an award-winning feature length documentary entitled, My Way. Throughout his time in the industry, Vinny has had the pleasure of working with talents such as director Jennifer Lynch (9-1-1), actor French Stuart (3rd Rock From The Sun), writer/director Mark Bacci (Northern Rescue) and voice actor/director Steve Mackall (Avenging Angelo, The Mighty Ducks), among others.

A first venture as producer on a feature length narrative film, Vinny is grateful for the opportunity to work alongside writer/director Adam Deierling to produce such an inspiring film, The Other Side of Darkness. “This film is very special. Since reading the first draft of the screenplay, I knew that we were going to be able to inspire others to work on this film, spreading our wings as a team and making it fly. I am incredibly humbled and amazed at the incredible group of individuals who have come together to make this dream a reality. And, I hope that this is the beginning of many more projects that we all work on together.”

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