White Knuckle

A who-dun-it short horror film about serial killer targeting young people in a neighborhood undergoing gentrification.

Our Kickstarter campaign is LIVE now! - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1114714422/white-knuckle A horror-whodunit short film about a serial killer targeting the newcomers of a neighborhood undergoing gentrification. Currently in production. Writer/Director/Editor - Xavier Coleman Producer – Miranda Kahn Producer and Assistant Director – Tess Raih Director of Photography – Connor Lawson Danny Rose & Alex Thompson (Rose Studios) – Sound Design & Mix 2nd Assistant Director - Miakoda Gale Script Supervisors - Violyt Chavis and Janeth Gonda Production Designer - Suja Ono Set Dresser - Victoria Nadler Prop Master - Lily Raih HMU - Krystal Michel Additional Art Direction - Christopher Kelley Sound Mixer and Boom Operator - Zac Suskevich 1st Assistant Camera - Tom Fenaille Gaffer - Dave McCabe Key Grip - Royal DIT - Grace Raih Production Assistants - Tom Pedro Rotando, Brendan Cloherty, Oleg Zalman Set Photographer - Casey Regan

“What if the only way to slow down gentrification was for a serial killer to go on a rampage, slashing the necks of budding venture capitalists, artists, and hipsters? - Kelsey Adams”

— The Fader Magazine

Beyond representation, we're motivated to spread White Knuckle's themes of gentrification and displacement: two issues that are close to our heart that we intend to create more dialogue about. Specifically, our movie will show the horrors that emerge from a lack of community and cultural diversity.

As White Knuckle's main characters debate the identity of the killer, broader questions are raised about the importance of cultural identity for American minorities. As they discuss what constitutes a psychopath, the notion of inner-city Black and brown pathology is challenged. And as the characters face the threat of murder, the parallel reality of a community and culture which is facing its own demise from gentrification becomes apparent.

May 2017. Written & Directed by Xavier Coleman, DP: Connor Lawson