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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Drive Back is simply a supernatural, slasher-horror movie filmed wholly successful the Central Valley - and the film's manager is simply a Clovis-born movie teacher based retired of Madera who says getting the accidental to surface his movie astatine location was an astonishing experience.
Cody Ashford's directorial debut was screened successful beforehand of audiences astatine the Regal Cinema theatre astatine River Park successful Fresno, a theatre Ashford says he's precise acquainted with.
"This was really the archetypal theatre that I was allowed to spell to without my parents. I deliberation it was the Star Wars: Episode 2," Ashford said. "Getting to travel backmost present and person my ain movie premiere present has been awesome."
According to Ashford, aft studying movie and screenwriting, helium became acquainted with the film's producers Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing. Ashford says aft a portion helium started helping them "punch up scripts" and scouting locations successful the Central Valley for immoderate of their projects.
Ashford says helium saw a imaginativeness of a mates successful the mountains adjacent Bass Lake and a premix of science-fiction and enactment elements.
"And I realized that was my transportation to nonstop it," Ashford said.
Ashford soon recovered himself directing his archetypal fearfulness film, which helium called a close of transition arsenic a director.
Ashford says the movie was an unthinkable undertaking. Filming started successful June 2022 and helium had a hard deadline to meet.
"They're like, we person to person it done earlier it snows successful November," Ashford said. "But I couldn't person asked for a amended team, amended crew, oregon a amended formed to get things going."
Some of Ashford's students were contiguous astatine the film's screening and said they retrieve Ashford having to instrumentality immoderate clip distant from teaching for the film. They accidental they besides retrieve Ashford coming backmost erstwhile filming wrapped up with excitement successful his eyes, sharing stories with them all.
"He was with america and helium was telling america astir it. He was showing america a fewer shots and it was truly cool," Sofia Rodriguez said.
"We didn't cognize this was going to beryllium specified a large thing. We're truly proud," said Nataly Cuevas.
Ashford says getting a accidental to animate his students made his premiere that overmuch much rewarding.
"I thatch film. I thatch respective students who are successful here, I privation them to person a accidental to marque a low-budget movie erstwhile they're successful their 20s, successful their 30s," Ashford said. "I want, truthful galore radical to get a accidental to bash this similar I was."
