Higher Grounds: Indie film shot in Wildwood now in post-production

Beach scene from Higher Grounds, courtesy of Joe Kramer - @kramervideo

Higher Grounds, an independent film partially shot in Wildwood last Fall, is now in post-production.

The movie's tagline reads: On the day fateful day intelligent life arrives to destroy Earth, one slacker alien becomes sidetracked when smitten with a bitter barista. Suddenly, our survival depends on whether or not this space-shmuck can get her number!

"We're hoping to have the film finished by early summer," co-writer and director Joe Kramer told Wildwood 365. "At that point, we'll begin submitting it to festivals and sending it around to contacts we have and productions companies and networks, with the goal of turning it into a series."

Regarding the importance of the film's Wildwood scenes, Kramer said that "the beach plays an integral role in the plot and we loved the look of Morey's Piers (Surfside Pier). It has an almost surreal quality in the background of our beach scene, like something out of a Fellini movie."

Principal photography for Higher Grounds took place over the course of six days in late-September and early-October of 2017 in Philadelphia and Wildwood.

The film was co-written by Christian Sarkis Graham, who also serves as producer.