Valley-made movie ready for rent

March 4, 2005

CASEY RESSLER/Valley Life editor

A copy of a locally made film is available for rent from Neighborhood Video in Palmer.

Grant Olson, who wrote and directed "Crossing the Rubicon," gave a DVD copy to the video store recently.

"The film was completed about a year ago, and it showed at the Anchorage Film Festival," Olson said. "We were talking with a guy from East Coast who was really pushing it, but we hadn't heard from him and hadn't heard from him, so I decided to create a DVD and get it out there."

The movie stars David Mead as Trevor Harrington, a teen-age boy so brilliant he has been identified as a new human species.

He is put in a hidden institute, located just outside Talkeetna, where he works telepathically with scientists. Ruby Crawford, played by Kelsey Myrvold, is an attractive student from California who has been identified as a possible source to breed with Harrington. She is duped into coming to Alaska as part of a Make-A-Wish Foundation event.

Harrington then has two weeks to win Ruby Crawford's heart in the sci-fi romantic comedy.

Other local actors who have roles in the film include Steve Treacy, Rachel Underwood and Cynthia Lee.