Carried Away is a 2009 film written and directed by Tom Huckabee, starring Gabriel Horn, Juli Erickson

Juli Erickson

Juli Erickson is an American film actress and voice actress. Her earliest film appearance was a minor role in Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate...

, Mark Walters, Bryan Massey

Bryan Massey

Bryan Massey is an American actor and writer. He also works frequently as a voice actor with Funimation. He currently resides in his hometown of Dallas, Texas with his wife and daughter.-Anime Roles:* Baccano! - Ladd Russo...

, and Tyler Corie.

The film follows Ed Franklin (Horn) as he liberates his grandmother (Erickson) from a nursing home

Nursing home

A nursing home, convalescent home, skilled nursing unit , care home, rest home, or old people's home provides a type of care of residents: it is a place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living...

 and takes her from Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...

 across country on their way to Hollywood. In pursuit are his father (Walters) and two brothers (Massey, Corie) who are determined to get her back. Ed soon realizes that his grandmother suffers from mental illness.

Awards

• Best Feature Film - Oxford Film Festival (Mississippi)
• Best Feature Film - Da Vinci Film Festival

Festivals

• Breckenridge Festival of Film
• Bare Bones International Film Festival
  Bare Bones International Film Festival
  The Bare Bones International Film Festival was founded in 1999 by the Darkwood Film Arts Institute in the city of Muskogee, Oklahoma to showcase low-budget independent movies...
  
  
• Crossroads Film Festival
  Crossroads Film Festival
  The Crossroads Film Festival is an independent film festival that takes place annually around the Jackson metropolitan area in the state of Mississippi. It focuses on independent film of all kinds, as well as regional and Mississippi film...
  
  
• Oxford Film Festival
• DaVinci Film Festival
• Byron Bay International Film Festival
• Dallas International Film Festival
  Dallas International Film Festival
  The DALLAS International Film Festival, presented by DALLAS Film Society, is a film festival that takes place annually in the state of Texas, in the United States. It takes place in April of every year. The 2011 DALLAS International Film Festival will be held March 31-April 10, 2011...
  
  

Confidence Bay

Carried Away was the first feature film

Feature film

In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...

 to use the world's first mobile high-definition

High-definition video

High-definition video or HD video refers to any video system of higher resolution than standard-definition video, and most commonly involves display resolutions of 1,280×720 pixels or 1,920×1,080 pixels...

 edit suite, Confidence Bay

Confidence Bay

Confidence Bay was the first mobile high-definition edit suite in the world. The facility is a 35' recreational vehicle with two full editing bays inside. It first debuted in March 2006 at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.-Design philosophy:...

, during the filming process. The film was shot tapeless

Tapeless

In the professional broadcast world, an end-to-end workflow is called tapeless when part, or all of it, is made without any tape; video and audio sources being ingested, recorded, edited and played out on digital systems....

 on the Red One and Confidence Bay transferred all the data from the camera, synchronized all audio and video, created dailies

Dailies

Dailies, in filmmaking, are the raw, unedited footage shot during the making of a motion picture. They are so called because usually at the end of each day, that day's footage is developed, synched to sound, and printed on film in a batch for viewing the next day by the director and some members...

, and assembled a rough cut of the film on locations spanning Texas, Arizona, and California. A 90 minute rough cut

Rough cut

In filmmaking, the rough cut is the second of three stages of offline editing. The rough cut is the first stage in which the film begins to resemble its final product...

 of the film was shown to the cast and crew

Film crew

Television crew positions are derived from those of film crew positions.A film crew is a group of people hired by a production company for the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. Crew are distinguished from cast, the Actors who appear in front of the camera or provide voices for...

 at the wrap

Wrap (filmmaking)

Wrap is a phrase used by the director in the early days of the film industry to signal the end of filming. Nowadays, the call is more commonly "that's a wrap!"...

 of the film.

Once filming was completed, Confidence Bay parked at Dockweiler State Beach

Dockweiler State Beach

Dockweiler State Beach is a Los Angeles beach protected under the state park system. Part of the park is located directly under the flight path of the immediately adjacent Los Angeles International Airport. Additionally, it is one of the few beaches in Los Angeles County where bonfires are permitted...

 in Los Angeles, CA where the majority of the film was edited. The film was picture lock

Picture lock

Picture lock is a stage in editing a film or editing a television production. It is the stage prior to on-line editing when all changes to the film or television program cut have been done and approved. It is then sent to subsequent stages in the process, such as online editing and audio mixing...

ed only a month after the film wrapped.