© UBIK Productions 2013
Piercing Brightness is a sci-fi film that plays on the border of narrative and experimental film-making, a directing debut by internationally acclaimed artist Shezad Dawood.
Two youths land in a spaceship outside Preston. Their mission: to re-establish contact and effect the retrieval of the Glorious 100 sent to earth millennia ago in human form to study and observe the development of another race. After making contact with one of the 100, now a Pakistani shopkeeper (Bhasker Patel) they discover that many of their kind have become corrupted, forgetting their original purpose and slowly becoming influenced by and in turn influencing their adopted home…