Project Detail

Black Time

Name: Black Time
Director: Sharon Axcell
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Woman Director
Released: 2025
Duration: 13 min 16 sec

A woman with long brown hair holding an object above her head

Synopsis

Dexter, a scientist, pushes human knowledge and invents a time machine. The invention spirals into chaos when it unwittingly becomes a malevolent black hole, threatening the world’s very existence. She uncovers the aftermath of her creation when she discovers a cryptic watch, sent through time as proof of her invention's power. Then, face-to-face with her future self, Dexter becomes involved in a high-stakes battle against her destiny, eventually determined to prevent the very creation of the time machine. A shocking twist unfurls as a further version of Dexter emerges, a sinister doppelgänger orchestrating events from the shadows, manipulating the time machine's inception to fulfil a clandestine mission to alter her family's tragic destiny…

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Details

Year: 2025
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 13 min 16 sec
Director: Sharon Axcell
Producer: Dean M. Drinkel
Executive Producer: Tamar Chatterjee
Editor: Frederic Fournier
Screenwriter: Sharon Axcell
Director of Photography: Christophe Carcelle
Production Designer: Tabitha Odutayo
Sound: Daniel Joseph, Alan Deacon
Composer: Alan Deacon
Principal cast: Suzanne Kendall

Genre

Action Adventure Sci-Fi Thriller Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

DrAx Productions Ltd

Dean M. Drinkel
The Swan
Bedmond Road
Pimlico
Hemel Hempstead
Herts
HP3 8SH

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