Preston Miller
of New York, NY

Member Since: Sep 9th, 2011 My Web Site

SYNOPSIS

Inspired by the true story of the 'God Saves the Earth Flying Saucer Foundation,' GOD's LAND is a gentle comedy of cultural dislocation; a bittersweet story about searching for faith in strange places.

Teacher Chen and his followers are beckoned from Taiwan to Texas by God to deliver a message of eternal love, space travel and the end of the world. There they also await the return of Jesus. While they wait they do their best to blend in: they buy land, dress in large white cowboy hats and jumpsuits and shop for what they need at malls, just like real Texans.

This feature length story is told from the point of view of Xiu, the wife of Hou, one of the Teachers most fervent followers. While he accepts the teacher’s predictions with enthusiasm, she sees only a loopy old man who speaks to God through his ring and waits for Jesus to take them away in his invisible spaceship. She becomes increasingly concerned amidst rumors of a mass suicide for the safety of her young son, her husband and herself. When the preordained time arrives when Jesus is to appear, the real search for spiritual truth begins, one has to choose to surrender. 

DIRECTOR BIO

Preston Miller's first feature-length film “JONES”, was praised by the likes of AmyTaubin in FILM COMMENT. A grim and graphic morality tale about a very likable guy who might be as detestable as any you'll ever find. “JONES” shot in near real-time over one hour and a quarter, enjoyed a successful run at THE PIONEER theater inNew York City in Dec. 2007 and is now available on DVD. 

He is in development  for his original screenplay titled "HOW I CAME INTO THIS WORLD" about an Indian-American nudist motel and continues to work on his ongoing production of, “TRYST OF BLUE” shot in India, Japan, Ireland and other locales. Additionally, he is working on his next feature-length screenplay “HEADING HOME,” about an American contractor in Iraq who becomes a decapitation victim. His soul revisits the people and events that led him to his grisly doom.

PM has collaborated with Kevin B. Lee and his 'Shooting Down Pictures' series of the 1000 Essential Films by co-writing and co-editing video diary pieces on Satyajit Ray's "Days and Nights in the Forest" and conducting an interview with screen legend Soumitra Chatterjee.

Over the last decade and a half he has written and directed a number of short films and videos, a few of which he has also acted. Most notably, “THE MOLE” and “DISHWASHING DETECTIVE” showed in festivals in New York, North Carolina and Kolkata, India.

PM was born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. He attended Appalachian State University for three years before transferring to City-College of New York. There he graduated in 1995 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts with honors in the Communications, Film & Video Dept. He currently resides in New York with his wife, and their two sons.

He continues to be a student of cinema and enjoys reading about and seeking out rare and treasured international films. Filmmakers he finds sublime include Satyajit Ray, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Jean-Luc Godard, Abbas Kiorastami, Victor Erice and Jim Jarmusch among others. Jethro Tull, sojourns to India and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers also play important roles in his life... as of course, does Vindaloo!