00:00Sven, which originated as a short film project that I started with my friend Brandon back in 2008 when I was still in community college.
00:08It originated as a project for one of my community college classes.
00:11Sven is a humanoid primate from the Amazon rainforest.
00:14He's called a shill masman, and he's the last of his species.
00:17A species of intellectual superiority, and put him in a cage with the most mentally unstable American adult male you could possibly find.
00:24Sven and this adult male named Michael are both being held captive by a U.S. government-funded program
00:29performing a psychological experiment forcing the two of them to live together
00:33inside a single maximum security containment habitat in replica of a modern-day condominium apartment.
00:38Essentially, Sven is two monsters in a room.
00:40One of them is internal, one of them is external.
00:42It's dark sci-fi, psychological horror, dark drama, dark comedy, graphic horror, dark romance.
00:47It's also a contemporary throwback.
00:49What it originally started as just kind of like an homage to David Lynch
00:53became something much bigger and more philosophical in scope.
00:57Sven is like a universal monster for the contemporary era.
01:01I see Sven as the quintessential Universal Studios monster for today's audience.
01:05He is a complete original.
01:07Even though I had started the series back in 2008, I didn't start writing the feature screenplay until 2012.
01:13And then, of course, for many years that screenplay remained untouched until 2021
01:17when I decided to revise it along with Dawn of An Emory and numerous other screenplays I had written.
01:22I don't even remember how many chapters I was originally planning to make.
01:25I think something maybe around ten, but I only filmed enough footage for about maybe three or four.
01:30But I had only completed two up until now.
01:33This was a long-abandoned project that I partially decided to abandon
01:36because I realized it should just be a feature film.
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