A Promise of Time Travel

written and directed by Craig Jessen, produced by April Grace Lowe

Release: 16 August 2016
Format: Feature Film
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

After fifteen years of estrangement, bookish Zelda Jones reunites with her best friend from high school, Cassie . At the start of their new relationship, it’s not apparent that their interactions are going anywhere, but as the other main characters weave their way into the plot, Zelda learns about time travel on a single, static timeline, and the pieces lock nicely into place.

Oh, and Dave’s grandfather had a plot to go back and kill Hitler, but that’s not really relevant to Zelda (and Cassie and Walter and John and Charlie).

— Michael Main

If you do travel back in time, even though it’s in your subjective future, it’s in the objective past. So if you could travel back in time and if you were determined to change the past, when it came down to it, you’d either decide not to, or you’d fail.

DEBUT

A Promise of Time Travel (North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Durham, North Carolina, 16 August 2016).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Timeline Models

Single Static Timeline

Time Travel Methods

Time Catapults

Themes

Real-World Tags

Adolf Hitler: Off-screen.

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From Southern California, government building, February 2015 ⋙ to N38° 49' 18.95'', W77° 6' 18.13'', 27 August 1955, 1:55 PM. Note: John to Walter.
From Southern California, government building, February 2015 ⋙ to coordinates ( N46.91° 34' 31.1979'', W119.6° 13' 26.3401'') that don’t make sense because they mix fractional degrees with explicit minutes and seconds, 15 September 1982, 9:37 AM. Note: Cassie to John.
From Southern California, Walter’s garage, July 2017 ⋙ to N34° 8' 2.8752'', W118° 2' 31.6134'', 3 October 2015, 8:43 PM. Note: Walter to Charlie.