Experiencing Interruptions?

Crosshair: A Tipping Point

Maddy, A Successful Oscar Winner Personality with fame, married life, wealth - now has locked himself in his home during his roughest time. Pandemic, Divorce, Loss of wealth and loss of fame has been tough on his life and he is depressed living on the edge and dark time of his life. One day, He was pushed out of his house and was put on a crosshair. Survival thought in that fraction of second will bring him out of his depression when he realizes that it was done with a good motive. This gives a motive to his own life, what that motive will do?
The movie covers 5-point scale for anxiety in character's emotions throughout the movie and a Tipping Point of an anxiety curve is portrayed effectively in character's change of expressions.

  • Amit Patel
    Director
    Corontine
  • Amit Patel
    Writer
    Corontine
  • Kiran Patel
    Producer
  • Amit Patel
    Key Cast
    "Maddy"
    Corontine
  • Kaushal Kathwadia
    Key Cast
    "Harry"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes 2 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 17, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    1,100 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • New York Film Awards
    New York
    United States
    September 10, 2020
    Best Thriller - Winner
  • Vegas Movie Awards
    Las Vegas
    United States
    September 6, 2020
    Best Thriller - Finalist
  • American Golden Picture International Film Festival
    Jacksonville, Florida
    United States
    August 3, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Kosice International Monthly Film Festival
    Košice
    Slovakia
    August 30, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Rome Independent Prisma Awards
    Rome
    Italy
    August 4, 2020
    Official Selection
  • New York Movie Awards
    New York
    United States
    August 4, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Florence Film Awards
    Florence
    Italy
    August 4, 2020
    Official Selection
  • The Lift-Off Sessions
    Iver
    United Kingdom
    August 16, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Social Distance Film Festival
    Online Festival
    August 4, 2020
    Official Selection
Distribution Information
  • Amazon Prime Video
    Distributor
    Country: United States
    Rights: Video on Demand, Video / Disc
    Country: United Kingdom
Director Biography - Amit Patel

Amit Patel is a filmmaker and an actor based in East Windsor, New Jersey who was originally born in india. He currently works as a full-time program manager/PMO and is also an Entrepreneur.

Amit has completed his Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science while performing part-time as an actor. He has performed in TV series and also in many stage acts during his childhood. He used to direct acts during his college days.
Amit has been writing stories and screenplays and directing them to tell those stories in a creative way. He is in love with Film-making. Being an Indie filmmaker, he creates films while wearing different hats as - a writer, director, actor, editor, sound designer, colorist and promoter for his own work.

Amit shot his first Zero budget short film, Corontine: Time to stay home, in 2020 while the whole world was under lockdown during pandemic, which was officially selected in 2 film festivals for best picture and was dedicated to front line workers in pandemic.

Right after that, Amit worked on a very interesting Suspense thriller short, Crosshair: A Tipping Point, which was released in July 2020 by Amazon Prime in USA and UK. This film became truly a reflection of his creativity and art in storytelling, due to the symbolism and audio-visual storytelling techniques, Crosshair: A tipping point, was screened around the world in many film festivals and was officially selected as a best short from a direction, story and an acting point of view.

While being an independent filmmaker, Amit is also shining as a very talented actor in Hollywood films like, Eleos and The final decision.

Amit's dream is to keep directing new films and web-series with professional film makers and actors and is currently building his body of work in that direction. He really enjoys storytelling.

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