Indie director Teddy Cecil joins Summer to talk about his award winning short film "Helio", which screened at both the Philip K. Dick Sci-Fi Film Festival and the San Diego Comicon Film Festival in 2016. We talk about making the film, future plans to make a feature length project from it, and expanding the story to other mediums.

"Helio" is a short, visceral film centered on a post apocalyptic underground society where miners work for light to survive. But when a dying rebel thrusts the unexpected onto an unassuming worker’s lap, all hell breaks loose. What begins as one man’s race to escape the hostile government quickly escalates into a city-wide uprising of the people.

"Helio" is available now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdxRYLNGImc

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