Selected to premiere in the Midnighters section of next week's SXSW Film
Festival is director Jaco Bouwer's South African horror
Gaia. The film stars Monique Rockman as a park ranger who comes a father and son living
a survivalist lifestyle in the woods. The three find themselves forced to
work together to survive the threat of mysterious beings that arrive at
night. Carel Nel, Anthony Oseyemi and Alex Van Dyk star.
Gaia premieres at SXSW on March 16th.
Check out the trailer below.
The official synopsis reads:
On a surveillance mission in a primordial forest, a park ranger encounters two survivalists following a post-apocalyptic lifestyle. The boy and his philosophical father seem to have their own religion, and a mysterious relationship to nature. There are many suspicious aspects to their existence, but when the cabin is attacked by strange, post-human beings one night, she learns that there is a greater threat in this emergent wilderness. GAIA is an ecological horror fantasy which engages the burning issues of our time.