Principal photography for Great is our Sins, a new independent short film production that will be shot in Spring Hill, Florida, is scheduled to commence in September of this year. Great is our Sins is a film written and directed by debut director Austin Jacobs and is produced by Wilfredo Aqueron and Lamar Clark-Gainous, all members of the local production company Depressed Panda, LLC.
Great is our Sins is a short film inspired by the true events of serial rapists and killers who captured international attention during the mid-nineties. The film explores themes of psychopathy, manipulation, and power in the minds of ‘true crime’ subjects like serial killers and sexual predators.
The film is also inspired by acclaimed box-office successes like David Fincher’s 1995 film Seven which stars Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman and Gone Girl (2014) starring Ben Affleck, and the more recent critically praised Yorgos Lanthimos film which starred Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman, The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017).
Despite Florida’s challenging economic climate for developing a profitable market in the film industry, this production and others show that local communities are hungry to support new film markets that are communally inclusive and actively productive.
