Love From Ground Zero follows three strangers (Simon Baker, Jacqueline McKenzie, Pruitt Taylor Vince) across the back roads of America with the ashes of a mutual friend. Using a series of old postcards as a map, the threesome drive from New York to Montana retracing their friend’s journey “out west” years before. As they try to make sense of the untimely death, they are forced to face the realities in their own lives that have brought them down this unpredictable road.
The film, which was shot on the move across the Midwestern states of Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Colorado, is award-winning director Stephen Grynberg‘s debut feature. Oscar-winning Director of Photography Mauro Fiore (Avatar) captures the majesty of a timeless American on 35 mm film set to the backdrop of a stunning original acoustic score by American music legend, John McEuen, a founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and a Grammy Award winner.