In a post-USA dystopia, the teen Libertaria escapes from a genetics factory and teams up with her addict father Simeon to lead an underground army of cyborg children against the evil reverse-aging Collective in this groundbreaking sci-fi opera from award-winning composer S. Pena Young. Good vs. Evil, sociopolitical upheaval, murder and betrayal, family and loss, Libertaria combines the best of the science fiction tradition of Blade Runner with the music of Repo: The Genetic Opera and Les Miserables.
In this exclusive movie companion, science fiction fans will read the original working screenplay, download FREE MUSIC from the Libertaria motion picture soundtrack, get an exclusive sneak peak at the upcoming Libertaria novel, and more. This Movie Companion Screenplay is part of an exclusive free online screening event Dec 6-9th, 2013. Details and access to the free online movie event are included in this movie companion.
"Sabrina Peña Young, a South Florida-born composer, has achieved...a breakthrough...with a “virtual opera” she wrote and cast entirely through the Internet...It sounds like a graphic novel, and it looks like one... As a story, it is very much in line with the good-vs.-evil sci-fi tradition, with the added bonus of a plucky female heroine." - Greg Stepanich, Palm Beach Arts Paper
"Epic" - Composer Perry R. Cook
Cast (In Alphabetical Order):
Joe Cameron: Gabe/Chorus
Perry R. Cook: Simeon/Gabe/Miguel/Chorus
Gracia Gillund: Libertaria/Chorus
Jennifer Hermansky: New Dawn Solo/The Nurse/Chorus
Matthew Meadows: Simeon
Kate Sikora: Libertaria/Chorus
Gretchen Suarez-Pena: Lucinde/Chorus
Yvette Teel: The Nurse
Additional vocals: Alan Manuel Pena (Broken)
Directed by Sabrina Pena Young
Original score by Sabrina Pena Young
Cast Album Mastered by Patrick Rundbladh at
P.R. Music Productions.
About the Director:
Sabrina Peña Young, the daughter of Dominican and Cuban parents, grew up in South Florida during the 1980s. Starting her creative journey as a musician, Young spent her teen years and much of her college life performing in various orchestras, alternative bands, and avant-garde ensembles. While at University of South Florida in Tampa in 2000, Sabrina Peña Young became involved with SYCOM (Systems Complex for the Recording and Performing Arts), an experimental enclave of composers and media artists and abandoned the sticks for technology. She worked with Emmy-winning director Charles Lyman at Atlantic Productions before leaving Tampa to study music technology at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, in 2003.
Over the next several years Young explored media and music, writing music and creating zombie effects for indie B horror films, composing complex electronic media works like World Order #5, composing music for Kalup Linzy in his film Conversations wid de churn II and studying film for a year at Florida International University in Miami where she premiered works like A Portrait of Urban Life at Art Basil Miami and Arts Miami before dropping out in 2006 to teach art to homeless children.
Combining her love of music and love of science fiction imagery, in 2011 Young received a New Genre award from the International Alliance for Women in Music for her futuristic multimedia oratorio Creation. In 2012 Young composed scores for the Rob Cabrera animated short Monica (2012) and Sean Fleck's time-laps film Americana.
Wanting to explore film further, Sabrina Peña Young began production on Libertaria: The Virtual Opera, a science fiction machinima opera produced entirely online. In 2013 Libertaria: The Virtual Opera was premiered in Lake Worth, Florida. - IMDb
In this exclusive movie companion, science fiction fans will read the original working screenplay, download FREE MUSIC from the Libertaria motion picture soundtrack, get an exclusive sneak peak at the upcoming Libertaria novel, and more. This Movie Companion Screenplay is part of an exclusive free online screening event Dec 6-9th, 2013. Details and access to the free online movie event are included in this movie companion.
"Sabrina Peña Young, a South Florida-born composer, has achieved...a breakthrough...with a “virtual opera” she wrote and cast entirely through the Internet...It sounds like a graphic novel, and it looks like one... As a story, it is very much in line with the good-vs.-evil sci-fi tradition, with the added bonus of a plucky female heroine." - Greg Stepanich, Palm Beach Arts Paper
"Epic" - Composer Perry R. Cook
Cast (In Alphabetical Order):
Joe Cameron: Gabe/Chorus
Perry R. Cook: Simeon/Gabe/Miguel/Chorus
Gracia Gillund: Libertaria/Chorus
Jennifer Hermansky: New Dawn Solo/The Nurse/Chorus
Matthew Meadows: Simeon
Kate Sikora: Libertaria/Chorus
Gretchen Suarez-Pena: Lucinde/Chorus
Yvette Teel: The Nurse
Additional vocals: Alan Manuel Pena (Broken)
Directed by Sabrina Pena Young
Original score by Sabrina Pena Young
Cast Album Mastered by Patrick Rundbladh at
P.R. Music Productions.
About the Director:
Sabrina Peña Young, the daughter of Dominican and Cuban parents, grew up in South Florida during the 1980s. Starting her creative journey as a musician, Young spent her teen years and much of her college life performing in various orchestras, alternative bands, and avant-garde ensembles. While at University of South Florida in Tampa in 2000, Sabrina Peña Young became involved with SYCOM (Systems Complex for the Recording and Performing Arts), an experimental enclave of composers and media artists and abandoned the sticks for technology. She worked with Emmy-winning director Charles Lyman at Atlantic Productions before leaving Tampa to study music technology at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, in 2003.
Over the next several years Young explored media and music, writing music and creating zombie effects for indie B horror films, composing complex electronic media works like World Order #5, composing music for Kalup Linzy in his film Conversations wid de churn II and studying film for a year at Florida International University in Miami where she premiered works like A Portrait of Urban Life at Art Basil Miami and Arts Miami before dropping out in 2006 to teach art to homeless children.
Combining her love of music and love of science fiction imagery, in 2011 Young received a New Genre award from the International Alliance for Women in Music for her futuristic multimedia oratorio Creation. In 2012 Young composed scores for the Rob Cabrera animated short Monica (2012) and Sean Fleck's time-laps film Americana.
Wanting to explore film further, Sabrina Peña Young began production on Libertaria: The Virtual Opera, a science fiction machinima opera produced entirely online. In 2013 Libertaria: The Virtual Opera was premiered in Lake Worth, Florida. - IMDb
