Adam Deierling leaned out the window with a video camera as the vehicle he was riding in motored down Route 7 along the Ohio River.
Filming a scene in “The Other Side of Darkness, the 33-year-old Stark County native was living his dream of making his first feature film.
But he didn't bask in the romanticism of creating cinema. There wasn't time.
The movie, filmed in Ohio and West Virginia, stars Maggie Callahan, a Cleveland native and former collegiate soccer player who received a degree in theatre arts from Case Western Reserve University.
Set against the backdrop of the country's largest electrical blackouts, a teen girl named Taylor Jo receives a mysterious birthday gift that leads her "on an adventurous collision course towards a plot to dismantle America's power grid," the movie's synopsis reads.
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