Synopsis:
Trust: When earned, it ties our lives together. When betrayed, it can rip our lives apart. What happens when agendas become more important than trust, and power more important than lives?

The Rapture is a low-budget sci-fi action film. The story line is based on the life of two chimaeras, which are scientifically engineered humans with special powers. Both are “brothers” attempting to live in the world along with their creator/ “mother”. The film contains flashbacks to their youth growing up "different", followed by their escape from the military base where their creator worked, and their subsequent struggle to remain free as operatives from the military and organized crime attempt to use them for their own purposes.

In our scenario, most chimaeras look "normal", and merely possess enhanced strength and speed. But the two "brothers" were specially designed for the military. One possesses wings which enable him to fly and to shoot feathers as daggers. The other has a somewhat scorpion-like tail which enables him to project energy blasts (as well as being a formidable martial arts weapon in its own right).

Stylistically, the film essentially strives to be a live-action anime story. Thematically, it deals with issues of trust and manipulation.

The Rapture trailer won a 2007 Bronze Telly Award and a Bronze Telly Music Award.

Selection: 2008 Ohio Independent Film Festival
Selection: 2008 2nd Annual RadCon Sci-Fi Fantasy Convention
Selection: 2008 Cinema Wasteland
Selection: 2008 Wreck Beach International Film Festival, Ontario
Selection: 2008 The IndieGathering Film Festival & Convention, Westlake, Ohio
Selection: 2008 Cowtown Film Series @ The Screens, Columbus, Ohio
Selection: 2008 Mid-Ohio Comic Con (October, 2008)

"Fun, good and enjoyable. I am pleasantly surprised!"
-- Ivan Schwarz - Cleveland Film Commissioner

Cast:
George Michael Tutie, Brian Richeson, Annie Kitral

Crew:
Directed By: Johnny K. Wu
Produced By: Jeff Yanik, Chandler Chapman, Christine Chapman, Tom Luhtala, Andrew Sokol, Andrew Schofield
Directors Of Photography: Peter Sampson, William Johns
Writen By: Johnny K. Wu And James V. Geier
Music Composed By: Aryavarta Kumar
Edited By: Johnny K. Wu
Production Company: The Rapture Llc & Media Design Imaging

©2007, HD, 90 minutes, USA