

"I had so much fun on the set, and it was just so amazing getting to experience having our own trailer where we could get our makeup done and change into costume, and come to a set that was built from scratch." "Everyone - the cast and crew - were just like a family to me," she said. She described her experience on the set as "magical."

"Radio Silence" is Frias' sixth performance in a feature film, but it's her first role as a lead character. "I feel connected I felt like I understood the character," she said, "and that's what drew me to her character more than anything." The character of the waitress undergoes a radial transformation as the film progresses, overcoming her "subservient" demeanor to become a lightning rod in battle to defeat the alien, said Scoughton, who insisted the character was not developed to capitalize on the #MeToo movement, the social-media driven movement empowering women to stand up against sexual harassment and assault, especially in the workplace.īut, he said, "I want my nieces to feel like they can take charge of the situation."įrias said she was drawn to the role because she could relate to the waitress. The cast included 12 to 14 actors, while the production crew consisted of as many as 16 people, depending on the day, all of whom hailed from either Las Cruces or El Paso. The film was shot over a roughly 24-day period in Radium Springs, which sits fewer than 200 miles from Janos. He was just like hanging out, hiding behind the satellite - all of a sudden here he is crashed into Earth," Scoughton told the Sun-News on the afternoon of May 4, the final day of production. More: The 12 best films from the 2018 Las Cruces International Film Festival Army Special Forces soldiers as they are sent on a mission to retrieve pieces of the satellite, at which time they encountered an "otherworldly" force - aka an alien. The film's plot centers on a spy satellite that's been shot down and lands in a remote desert region about 45 miles west the Mexican town of Janos, in the state of Chihuahua. The film, "Radio Silence," is a project by the Las Cruces-based production company PRC Productions, headed by Troy Scoughton Sr., who wrote, directed and produced the action-adventure movie. RADIUM SPRINGS - Production wrapped last week on an independent science fiction thriller shot in Radium Springs featuring a cast and crew from Las Cruces and El Paso.
