Timothy Colletti’s intense and conceptually rich sci-fi thriller Paradox stars Ryan Vallan (Don Q), Maximilien Blanc (Dipsticks: The Movie), Nelita Villezon (Doggmen), Jean Charles (Premonition), and Oran Stainbrook (Altered Perceptions, The Thief) is now available on Amazon Prime Video.
Written, produced, edited, and directed by Colletti, Paradox is a sci-fi thriller that tells of Zane Carson, a suspected child serial killer, apprehended for the murder of two children and the kidnapping of a third one, who claims during his interrogation that he is a soldier from the future and was sent back in time to kill the grandparents of the woman who starts World War Three. This causes a paradox for Gillard and Johnstone, the two detectives on the case, who can’t decide if he’s a lying murderer or a freedom fighter here to save the future of mankind. Do they believe what he says and help him thwart what could be a catastrophic future, or do they use pragmatic discernment and save the life of the child he’s taken hostage by any means necessary? Further investigation after his capture leads to the mystery of why…
Rachel Ewing serves as executive producer, and Emmy-award-winning Dianne Farrington is the director of photography.
Colletti began his film career as an assistant film editor on an Oprah Winfrey television show. Within a year, he was in the MPEG and working at Disney. Over the following years, while working at Warner Bros., Fox, Universal, Disney, and Paramount, he would work with, as he often described, the editors people write books about and discuss in film schools. Feeling that it was time to venture out and live his dream of being a filmmaker, he wrote and directed the independent film Safe House, which was an official selection to several international film festivals, including Slamdance, the Hollywood Black Film Festival, and Febiofest, the largest film festival in the Czech Republic. He wrote Paradox during the pandemic and began filming the following year.
“When I think of the future of Paradox, what I see is further exploration of the concepts and ideas of the storyline that we’ve established, whether through a series or another film. Paradox has enough intriguing ideas that whichever direction we go, I think the audience will appreciate and want to be a part of what we have to offer,” says Colletti.
