Red Line (2013 film)

Red Line
Red Line movie poster
Directed by	Robert Kirbyson
Produced by	Dominic Iocco, Christopher Riley, Nathan Scoggins
Written by	Robert Kirbyson, Tara Stone
Starring	Nicole Gale Anderson, John Billingsley
Music by	Alan Derian
Cinematography	Robert Kirbyson
Edited by	Catherine Kirbyson
Production company	Yellow Line Studio
Distributed by	Rogue Arts
Release date	July 16, 2013
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Budget	$220,000

Red Line is a 2013 film directed by Rob Kirbyson and produced by Yellow Line Studio. The film is noteworthy for its inception as a class project and for using student interns from John Paul the Great Catholic University as a majority of the production crew.

Terrified subway passengers fight for their lives after a terrorist bombing leaves them trapped underground in Los Angeles' subway tunnels. With another bomb ticking down and the perpetrator among them, it's a race against time for survival.

Nicole Gale Anderson as Tori
John Billingsley as Sam
Kunal Sharma as Al
Kevin Sizemore as Jared
Joe Williamson as Mason
Mark Saul as Boyd
Keena Ferguson as Rubina
Renee Sly as Dillon
Kym Jackson as Kristine
Anna Maganini as Yolanda
Jamie Nieto as Adam

Red Line began as a "real-world experience" senior project for film students at John Paul the Great Catholic University. In 2010, producers Chris Riley and Dominic Iocco, both professors at the University, challenged the school's film students to generate story concepts that could potentially be filmed in the school's soundstage. The staff knew that they wanted it to be a contained space thriller due to limited budget and resources. Screenwriting student Tara Stone pitched a World War II period thriller about people who are trapped together in a wine cellar during the London Blitz and begin to suspect that a Nazi spy is among them. Upon the advice of Chris Riley and director Rob Kirbyson, also a professor at the school, the script was changed during the writing process to become a contemporary piece set in the subway system of Los Angeles. The change was both to reduce costs and to make the piece more relevant to modern audiences.

Leveraging the faculty's connections in the film industry, the students and professors then recruited professional crew to head up various departments, including Beverly Holloway for casting, Toby Lamm for the makeup department, David Barnaby for sound design, and Glen Hall for production design. Nicole Gale Anderson, well known for her role in the Disney Channel series Jonas L.A., signed on as a lead actress, accompanied by John Billingsley, whose credits include 2012, Star Trek: Enterprise, and 24.