Wreck

Xavier started to film on a whim one summer. Nothing in particular, nothing spectacular- just his friends and family in everyday life. When he is killed suddenly in a car crash, his best friend Kyle takes his place behind the camera in an attempt to process his unexpected loss. Compiling footage from before the accident by Xavier’s hand and the weeks that follow by Kyle’s, we witness the struggle faced by people shattered by the loss of a loved one and their determination to piece themselves back together

  • Andrew Meyer
    Director
  • Rebecca Paganini
    Writer
  • Melanie Hinkle
    Producer
  • Andrew K. Meyer
    Producer
  • Rebecca Paganini
    Producer
  • Adam Casner
    Producer
  • Ryan Stacy
    Key Cast
  • Chris Lemiuex
    Key Cast
  • Rebecca Paganini
    Key Cast
  • James Lee
    Key Cast
  • Alexa Arrabito
    Key Cast
  • Keith Boratko
    Key Cast
  • Julie Fain Lawrence
    Key Cast
  • Daniel Manche
    Music
  • Christopher Plunkett
    Editor
  • Daniel Manche
    Sound Department
  • Adam Casner
    Sound Department
  • Grace Texter
    Graphic Designer
  • Project Type:
    Feature, Student
  • Genres:
    Mockumentary, Drama
  • Runtime:
    47 minutes 32 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 29, 2015
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.78
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes
Director Biography - Andrew Meyer

Andrew K. Meyer is an aspiring screenwriter and director, who dips into performing on the side. He has previously worked with Hypokrite Films on producing and co-writing the Blip TV comedy web-series Unrelated. Andrew recently graduated from Pace University with a degrees in both Acting and Psychology. NYC Performing Credits: The Chris Gethard Show, Hello Giggles Live at UCB, Songs for a New World, L'illusion Comique.

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Director Statement

Our first death- one of the few landmarks of life we prefer to ignore. Mine was a few months before Rebecca handed us her first draft. He was a really significant friend of mine, as well as a couple of others on the Wreck team.

That first week without him seems so foreign and surreal to me now, but I remember it with incredible clarity. I remember the sights of it. I remember the sounds. I remember laughing a lot. All of his friends and I kept finding ourselves laughing about something, which initially felt so wrong, because we were laughing without him. But we couldn’t help it- we were so immediately overstimulated by the memory of him, sharing a mutual excitement that we even got to know someone as unique as him. We were spit-firing story after story, as if he were already legend.

I also remember the anger- me and his unresolved debates, our unimpressive final conversation, my unanswered questions to his character. I had so much left to learn about him. My right to closure was stripped without my consent, and I was angry to realize that this would just keep happening- that this was only the first death- that my own story will likely end without a quantifiable resolution, just like his.

That anger is so significant to the human condition. There is nothing romantic about it.

I genuinely didn’t expect Wreck to turn out to be so similar to my experience with mourning. We had no intention of making a movie that’d ask us to re-visit our pain- it was never about just us.

It’s about all of us.

Wreck is my best attempt to express what you likely already understand, but in words that you maybe hadn’t yet considered. The characters can be as strong as they can be weak. They are as accidentally poignant as all of us happen to be as well. Wreck is an amalgamation of those little conversations we share, that at the time did not yet feel like were the most important things you will ever have said.