"Spooky Action," the fifth feature film from a pair of Penn State faculty filmmakers, will make its premiere at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 10 at the State Theatre. Credit: Ma & Pa Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The fifth feature film from a pair of Penn State faculty filmmakers will make its premiere at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 10 at the State Theatre.
Tickets for the free screening of “Spooky Action” — “a story about love, destiny and quantum entanglement” — are available online.
Filmmakers Rod Bingaman and Maura Shea, the husband-and-wife team behind Ma & Pa Pictures, led the production of the locally produced film that relied heavily on Penn State alumni, faculty and staff.
Bingaman, an associate teaching professor in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, wrote and directed the film. Shea, an associate teaching professor and associate head of the Department of Film Production and Media Studies in the Bellisario College, produced and edited the film.
“Spooky Action” focuses on time travelers who kidnap a 1990s NASA scientist and loop him into the future to steal his anti-aging research. Meanwhile, his wife suffers a sexual identity crisis and becomes the prime suspect in his disappearance.
Principle photography for the 104-minute film started in 2019, was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and resumed in July 2021. Locations for the film were all in and around Centre County.