What would you do if you woke up one day and could not produce, retain, or create new memories? Machinima-artist Anthony Perfetto decided to explore that question as he wandered off into the human psyche in his upcoming film entitled "Time". eSportsTV had the opportunity to talk to Anthony Perfetto Wednesday night for our "In The Spotlight" series and spoke with him about his life and upcoming film. Join us as we venture into this in-depth preview that will surely spark your interest in "Time".

Anthony Perfetto is not your average 19-year old college student. In fact, this Pennsylvanian film maker is currently working toward a major in Radiologic Technology, or as most of you know it, X-Ray Technology. Anthony started playing CounterStrike four years ago on his computer and eventually developed an interest in the popular frag and machinima movies of the day. After playing CounterStrike for two years he decided to create his own frag movie and developed his first two frag videos through Windows Media Player. The movies, well, pretty much sucked, but that did not stop him from loving them. His interest grew from there and the first movie that got the ball rolling for him was "The Machine".

In the summer of 2005, he started on his next project, Requiem. Requiem was a unique mixture of a frag movie and a machinima film, the first of its kind. The movie received great reviews and the exposure led him to join the three-year-old European company Style Productions. All of this really inspired him to move onto the machinima genre and, during the making of Requiem, the idea of Time was created. Inspirations such as Christopher Nolan, director of Memento, and Darren Aronofsky, director of The Fountain, helped him create the script of the movie. "[These directors] inspired me to make a movie that isn't straight forward, makes you think, makes you catch every part of the movie to get the movie as a whole and to fully appreciate it."

Time is about a man in the military, Thomas "Tommy" Page, and his buddy, James Cooper. In the military, Tommy had an accident and fell into a coma for two weeks. Once he woke up he lost the ability to produce, retain, or create any memories. A doctor tried to help Tommy by giving him an experimental drug to help his hypothalamus, a drug which supposedly rebuilt the signals that went inside the hypothalamus. But things are definitely not what they seem to be...

Throughout the creation of this film Anthony received a lot of help from a variety of different community experts. Joseph Moore of JMC Studios, Jake Wire of Wire Servers, Jordan Bowers, FarmerJoe of Style Productions, Stevester of CSFlicks and Daniel Frome of GWFilms all helped him throughout the creation of his movie in one form or another. From voice acting to extraordinary tips from Daniel Frome and the CGI scenes developed by FarmerJoe and Stevester. "This movie is not only jam packed with drama, thrills, and action but the 3D animation is top-notch..."

Many people might be wondering, "With all this help, why didn't he create the movie in the Source engine?" Anthony has informed eSportsTV that the reason behind the usage of the Half-Life engine was because of the sheer fact that he was comfortable with it after playing competitively in CounterStrike and working on four other films in it. Nonetheless, no one should worry as CGI effects, new models, and great voice acting will all be making it into the movie. To ensure the quality of the film itself, Anthony even decided to do the voice acting for the main character Tommy Page. The director, scriptwriter, video editor, and voice actor - a list of just some of the jobs Anthony has been doing which prove his dedication to this film.

Anthony ensures us that Time will be like no other. He will be taking this beyond the engine and has used illusions, tricks of the eye, to make this movie as real as possible. You will be able to look inside a person's body, see people jumping through windows, and doing back flips. However, the two hardest parts of creating a film is trying to please everyone and making it original. However, after listening to Anthony talk about this film and seeing his past work, one can definitely expect to him do both. His knowledge of medicine not only helped him with the medical-aspect of Time, his writing skills also helped him create an outstanding script quite easier than one would expect.

The estimated time of release for this film is currently set at the end of October, and one can only hope for it to make its deadline as most are already on the edge of their seats wanting to know what is going to happen during the trailer. He has also already come up with a brand new concept for a film that will be much more difficult to create than Time, and he hopes to move into the film industry in upcoming years. To find out more information about Anthony Perfetto and Time, make sure to check out the exclusive interview eSportsTV conducted, which you can find below. I would like to thank Anthony Perfetto for taking his time to talk to us and recommend you to visit Style Productions and the official Time website for more updates on his movie as time goes by.

Until next time, this is Brent Burk with eSportsTV, signing off.

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