Ten months since Governor Granholm signed Michigan’s Film Tax Incentives into law, “The Steam Experiment”, the first movie to shoot in Grand Rapids after the incentives went into law is now ready for its first Film Festival.

The thriller, “The Steam Experiment” starring Val Kilmer and Armand Assante will make its debut Sunday night at the Gasparilla International Film Festival in Tampa, Florida.

The festival is the first public showing of the movie that spent 16 days shooting in Grand Rapids back in

Megan Brown and Patrick Muldoon in "The Steam Experiment" courtesy Cinepro Pictures

September.

The producers just recently finished editing the movie.

Armand Assante, starring as Detective Mancini, will attend the Sunday’s screening and following the film will receive the Gasparilla Career Achievement Award!

A theatrical release is planned soon, but exact details have yet to be worked out.

There’s also no word yet on when “The Steam Experiment” will make it to Grand Rapids theaters, but there’s talk that it will be shown first to the Grand Rapids cast and crew.

Val Kilmer and doctor in "The Steam Experiment" courtesy Cinepro Pictures

A DVD release of the movie is also in the works.

For more, check out a synopsis of the movie from the Gasparilla International Film Festival website:

“Former university professor James Pettis (VAL KILMER) boasts to the local paper that he has trapped six people and is holding them hostage in a Turkish bath to prove his hypothesis that humans will devolve into chaos under the pressures of global warming.
Tempers flare, fights break out, people begin to die off and Jimmy Pettis refuses to break. Can Jack Mancini crack the case and rescue the surviving guests? Or will the luxury steam room become their tomb? Only Jimmy Pettis knows the answer. And behind that Cheshire cat grin, he has one more trick up his sleeve.”

For previous stories on “The Steam Experiment”, click on these links:

11/16/08 – Poster and New Photos for “The Steam Experiment”

10/10/08 – Steam Experiment updates

9/25/08 – More Steam Experiment news

9/18/08 – Steam Experiment news

9/11/08 – From the set of The Steam Experiment

9/8/08 – Trying to confirm The Steam Experiment shooting in Grand Rapids

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