Set in a not too distant future small town, a VR life simulation junkie goes on a mission in reality to get a new dopamine game cartridge before she goes through happiness withdrawal.

"Chimera" by Andrew Lee Ryan

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More About "Chimera":
A small-town nobody, Felicity Fury, spends every day making the most of her alternative life in virtual reality completing simple objectives in the great city of Sunscape! One day she comes out of the game to find her partner Logan has used the last of the cartridges, which use a concentrated dose of dopamine to keep players happy and hooked on the game. She gathers what little money she has to go acquire a new cartridge but she’s been plugged in too long; not only have they been recently declared illegal unbeknownst to her but she is beginning to dissociate. In other words, her reality is glitching. What is real and what is not? As she chases down a cartridge she discovers that happiness is not a product she can easily purchase. Rather, happiness is a product of the mind.

"Chimera" Credits:
Written and Directed by
Andrew Lee Ryan

Executive Producers
Andrew Lee Ryan
Rebecca Ryan
Matthew R. Corbett

Producer
Andrew Lee Ryan

Associate Producer
Zachary Harrison

Director of Photography
Laura Jansen

Edited by
Zachary Harrison

Assistant Editor
Cassandra Eiler

Original Music by
James Fabio

Assistant Director
Kim Bunce

Script Supervisor
Adam Centrella
Props
Argon Props

First Assistant Camera
Ketak Dhiman

Second Assistant Camera
Renee Narbinger

Steadicam Op
Wesley Kabakjian

Gaffer
Rahul Sharma

Key Grip
Ben Goelz

Sound
Mariya Chulichkova

Hair and Makeup
Cam Harris

Colorist
Borna Jafari

Sound Design and Mixing
Luke Burba

VFX
Piotr Smorawski

ACTORS
Terra Layne
as Felicity Fury

Chérie Celeste Malone
as Cass Cleary

Joshua Radford
as Logan Briggs

Connor Dylan
as Shaw Grimes

Ahmad DeChalus
as Frisco Hood

Liza Giangrande
as Harper Kennedy

Lukas Jacob
as Street Merchant

Lazaros Theodorakopoulos
as Drug Dealer

Cameron Kelley
as Extra

Thomas Richetelli
as Extra #2

Connor Dylan
as VR External Voice, Jason Cleary

Sasha Travis
as VR Internal Voice

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