Sascha Wil­son

For cen­turies, mys­te­ri­ous sto­ries of At­lantis, the Bermu­da Tri­an­gle and the Foun­tain of Youth have fas­ci­nat­ed his­to­ri­ans, ad­ven­tur­ers and con­spir­a­cy the­o­rists.

Now, lo­cal com­pa­nies To­tal Chaos Pro­duc­tions and Is­lands Films are of­fi­cial­ly pro­duc­ing a cap­ti­vat­ing fea­ture film, A Pas­sage to At­lantis, aimed at bring­ing those mys­ter­ies to­geth­er in a bold Caribbean ad­ven­ture.

Writer and di­rec­tor Paul Bansee­lal, known in the in­dus­try as Paul B, said the 13-mem­ber pro­duc­tion team is ex­pect­ed to con­clude the mil­lion-dol­lar pro­duc­tion in Sep­tem­ber, with the film ex­pect­ed to be re­leased in cin­e­mas in No­vem­ber.

“It’s a thought-pro­vok­ing ex­pe­ri­ence that will leave the au­di­ence in ques­tion of sci­en­tif­ic the­o­ries and his­tor­i­cal be­liefs,” said Paul B, a vet­er­an stage pro­duc­er and tele­vi­sion cre­ator.

Filmed in Trinidad and To­ba­go, the team be­lieves the two-and-a-half-hour film is poised to put Caribbean film­mak­ing on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage with a sto­ry de­signed to sur­prise au­di­ences world­wide.

Paul B said they an­tic­i­pate that the film will be re­leased through­out the Caribbean, sub­mit­ted to ma­jor film fes­ti­vals and pre­sent­ed to ma­jor net­works. He ex­plained that plans to make a fea­ture film rather than a doc­u­men­tary were made four years ago, but his re­search in­to At­lantis and the oth­er top­ics has been on­go­ing for three decades.

With a cast of 41 ac­tors, he said, “The film genre be­ing ad­ven­ture fic­tion, gives re­al in­for­ma­tion about At­lantis lo­ca­tion, their peo­ple, and the hap­pen­ings of the Bermu­da Tri­an­gle, and Hol­low Earth. There are two love sto­ries, com­e­dy, and ac­tion scenes that pro­duce a well bal­ance script. Scenery, ro­mance life and re­la­tion­ships.”

In a press re­lease, the com­pa­ny said Paul B’s pas­sion for his­to­ry, mythol­o­gy and Caribbean mys­ter­ies has dri­ven more than 35 years of re­search in­to the true lo­ca­tion of At­lantis.

“Known for lo­cal stage pro­duc­tions in­clud­ing A Win­dow to The Past, and most re­cent­ly A Deal with Dark­ness at the Na­pari­ma Bowl, Paul B now brings a cin­e­mat­ic ad­ven­ture blend­ing his­tor­i­cal facts, an­cient leg­ends, Caribbean mys­ter­ies, and thrilling fic­tion in­to one un­for­get­table sto­ry.”

Giv­ing a brief sum­ma­ry of the film, the com­pa­ny said it ex­plores the con­nec­tions that link At­lantis, the Bermu­da Tri­an­gle, Hol­low Earth leg­ends and the Foun­tain of Youth, un­cov­er­ing clues hid­den with­in the Caribbean is­lands for cen­turies.

“In­spired by the­o­ries sur­round­ing Christo­pher Colum­bus’ voy­ages and mys­te­ri­ous an­cient maps, the sto­ry fol­lows a group of uni­ver­si­ty stu­dents who un­cov­er se­crets ca­pa­ble of chang­ing world his­to­ry for­ev­er. With a script care­ful­ly writ­ten to com­bine in­tel­li­gent re­search with sus­pense, mys­tery, and ad­ven­ture.”

Promis­ing an ex­cit­ing jour­ney, the com­pa­ny said au­di­ences will be shocked when the hid­den lo­ca­tion of At­lantis is fi­nal­ly re­vealed.

B de­scribed the pro­duc­tion as “the most in­tel­lec­tu­al­ly stim­u­lat­ing movie pro­duced in the Caribbean,” blend­ing leg­end and sci­ence, and fac­tu­al in­ci­dents, in­to one un­for­get­table cin­e­mat­ic jour­ney.

Set against the spec­tac­u­lar back­drop of the Caribbean, the com­pa­ny said the sto­ry be­gins with the west­ward voy­age of Christo­pher Colum­bus.

“The film pro­pos­es a fas­ci­nat­ing the­o­ry that Colum­bus pos­sessed a mys­te­ri­ous map point­ing not to­wards the East in search of spices, but west to the hid­den lo­ca­tion of At­lantis it­self, some­where be­neath Caribbean wa­ters.

“Cen­turies lat­er, five uni­ver­si­ty stu­dents dis­cov­er an an­cient map hid­den be­hind a 300-year-old owl paint­ing orig­i­nat­ing from an East In­di­an ex­po­si­tion. Be­liev­ing the arte­fact may be con­nect­ed to for­got­ten his­to­ry, they bring it to their uni­ver­si­ty pro­fes­sor, on­ly to un­cov­er a shock­ing se­cret. The pro­fes­sor pos­sess­es a mys­te­ri­ous di­ary left to him by his grand­fa­ther, who claimed he once jour­neyed to At­lantis and was sent back by an un­der­ground re­sis­tance to re­veal the truth of their hid­den civil­i­sa­tion to the world. In­side the di­ary is a du­pli­cate of the same an­cient map.”

To­geth­er, a team of pro­fes­sors and re­searchers launch an ex­pe­di­tion to a tiny Caribbean is­land be­lieved to hold the en­trance to all four mys­ter­ies. Joined by the five stu­dents, the ex­pe­di­tion then races to un­cov­er two an­cient di­aries that may re­veal the true lo­ca­tion of the hid­den world be­neath the Caribbean.

The pro­duc­tion team wel­comes fi­nan­cial sup­port and part­ner­ships from pri­vate in­vestors, busi­ness­es, spon­sors and sup­port­ers in­ter­est­ed in be­com­ing part of this fas­ci­nat­ing project.