In the Matchbox

01 — Logline

In 1967, an old man tells his great-great-nephews a family secret kept for centuries — a truth that could infect the world.

02 — The Original Short Film

Shot in a Single Day. Awarded Fifteen Times.

Before the feature, there was the short — carried by the same voice, the same lamplight, the same secret.

15
Awards won
1
Day shoot
1967
Setting

03 — Movie Teaser

In the Matchbox — Teaser

04 — The Story

Deep in Catawba County, North Carolina, 1967.

An old man gathers his great-great-nephews in a room lit by a single lamp and begins to tell them something his family has carried, quietly, for centuries.

It is a truth with a shape, a history, and an appetite — and by the time the boys understand what has been handed to them, it has already begun to move.

What he tells them is not a legend.

Film still: a man in overalls beneath a framed landscape painting in a dim farmhouse
Still from the film · Catawba County, NC

Genre

Southern Gothic Horror

Setting

Catawba County, NC · 1967

Format

Feature Film

Status

In Post-Production

05 — Cast & Crew

Director

Mike Rae Anderson

Writers

Jermi Little
Mike Rae Anderson

Portrait of director Mike Rae Anderson

06 — Director / Co-Writer

Mike Rae Anderson

Born in Stuttgart, Germany and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina...

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07 — Writer / Producer

Jermi Little

Jermi Little grew up in Washington, DC and Hickory, North Carolina. He became enthralled with cinema early, often sneaking into the movies for the storytelling, characters and settings — the quiet beginning of everything that followed. He enlisted in the Army after witnessing 9/11 and to escape life on the streets, was injured while serving, and is now a disabled veteran.

He produced his first feature, an original story titled “The Mutt” starring Erik Estrada, helped produce “A Knight to Remember,” and is producing the action drama “Rubber Bullets.” Short films he has written, produced and starred in have screened at Oscar-qualifying festivals including Tribeca, LA Shorts International, the Pan African Film Festival and the Peachtree Village International Film Festival.

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Portrait of writer and producer Jermi Little

08 — Production Inquiries

For Distributors, Programmers & Press