Nostradamus

Nigerian/British director Thomas Ikimi was influenced a great deal by the work of Stephen Spielberg and Alfred Hitchcock. Nostradamus is inspired by Hitchock’s Strangers On A Train. Thomas wanted to bring that classic feel to the short film genre. He was eager to create a short film that felt like an expansive thriller with a much wider scope than it’s immediate environment and running time.

NOSTRADAMUS deals with the debate on drone warfare and Thomas created a story that looked at it from the perspective of the people charged with making those decisions on when to push the button. Taking a short step into the future, what would be the next phase of drone technology and what would that mean to a pilot who had to operate it?

NOSTRADAMUS is rife with tension, suspense and intrigue, and was intended to be a very different kind of short film experience. Thomas believes the cast and crew delivered on his vision for a ‘feature like’ short with all the twists and turns of the classic thrillers of yesteryear it was inspired by.

The Independent’s Kurt Brokaw reviews calls Nostradamus ‘One hell of a movie,’ and ‘Oscar worthy.’