Drive All Night is a surreal, dreamlike mystery that’s equal parts romance and thriller. The film follows Dave (Yutaka Takeuchi), a swing-taxi driver whose night takes an unexpected turn when he picks up Cara (Lexy Hammonds), a mysterious young woman with an uncanny knowledge of arcade games and a dark secret.

After leaving the 24 hour diner where a particularly charming waitress named Morgan (Sarah Dumont) works, Dave gets a call from Cara and picks her up at her motel. She makes him drive around the city without a clear destination or motive and has him accompany her on a number of seemingly random excursions - each one stranger than the next.

Meanwhile Lenny (Johnny Gilligan), a deadly hit-man is hot on their trail. Guided by strange visions and by order of a mysterious mob boss (Vonn Scott Bair), he prowls the city looking for the pair. Every place he searches brings him one step closer.

Will Lenny catch up to Dave and Cara before it is too late?

What happens when the night ends?

I used to take these long late night drives through the city. Whenever I had trouble sleeping and my mind was racing, I'd get in my car, turn on some music and drive. That was the initial inspiration for Drive All Night. At its core, the film is about Dave, a lonely, reclusive taxi driver who spends his nights driving around, picking up all sorts of people, but never actually making meaningful connections.

The gritty, neo-noir downtown is the perfect backdrop for the film's two central themes: reality vs. fantasy, and human agency - can we outrun the past to become better, or are we bound by destiny? As the story unfolds and we venture further into the night, Dave - and by extension the audience - is faced with strange experiences and images that challenge what is real and what is illusion. Things become less clear, and the visuals become more vibrant and dream-like. I wanted to develop a complex, layered narrative that became increasingly more dream-like and surreal as the story developed. My intent is to take the audience down the rabbit hole on a trip through wonderland and have them emerge the other side both baffled and entertained.