| In the outer reaches of the solar system, a long-lost communications vessel, The Maelstrom, has just been found. Investigating a distress signal on board, detectives Weller and Ford make a gruesome discovery... The entire crew has been brutally slaughtered. And the killer is still on board! "INTO THE MAELSTROM" was produced as an entry in the 48 Hour Film Project, an international filmmaking competition where teams are given forty eight hours to write, shoot, and edit a short film between four and seven minutes in length. In the case of "INTO THE MAELSTROM," this time period also included composing an original score, creating a complex sound design, and animating an ambitious computer-generated effect that would serve as the film's opening shot. According to the rules, the script would have to be written the night before the shoot, after producer Marc Ferrero, |