Before the Fire

Official Selection – 2020 Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival
Official Selection – Manchester Film Festival 2020
Official Selection – Harlem International Film Festival 2020

As a global pandemic engulfs Los Angeles, rising TV star Ava Boone is forced to flee the mounting chaos and return to her rural hometown. As she struggles to acclimate to a way of life she left behind long ago, her homecoming attracts a dangerous figure from her past- threatening both her and the family that serves as her only sanctuary.

Brimming with tension and paranoia, and featuring a tough-as-nails performance from its lead actress, the pre-apocalyptic road movie Before the Fire is a shockingly timely tale of the strength of the human spirit against seemingly insurmountable odds.

“BEFORE THE FIRE IS ABOUT TRAUMA, FAMILY DYNAMICS, FEAR, BETRAYAL AND POWER. IT WILL PULL YOU IN FROM THE VERY FIRST MOMENTS AND NOT LET UP UNTIL THE CREDITS.”
– ALLIANCE OF FEMALE FILM JOURNALISTS

“BEFORE THE FIRE COULDN’T BE MORE TIMELY, GIVING AUDIENCES A CHANCE TO PONDER WHO THEY WANT TO BE VERSUS WHO THEY WILL BE IF THINGS GET WORSE.”
– FANBOY PLANET

“A QUIETLY INTENSE, INTIMATE DEPICTION OF SURVIVAL, BOTH OF A PANDEMIC AND TRAUMA.”
– EDGE MEDIA NETWORK

“A SHOCKINGLY TIMELY TALE…MUCH LIKE IN REAL-LIFE 2020, THE QUESTION OF WHOM TO TRUST ARISES MORE OFTEN THAN ONE WOULD LIKE TO THINK.”
– CRYPTIC ROCK

“ONE OF THE MANY HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FILM: THE ACTING AND DIALOGUE, WITH JENNA LYNG ADAMS CLEARLY IN THE SPOTLIGHT AND DESERVING OF EVERY MINUTE.”
– KILLER HORROR CRITIC

Charlie Buhler – Director
Jenna Lyng Adams (Netflix’s The Kominsky Method, Uncle John)
Jackson Davis (Vida, Shameless, The Basement)
Ryan Vigilant (Naked as We Came, Lenox Avenue)
Charles Hubbell (The Lumber Baron, The Midnight Chronicles, Walking with the Enemy)