Diane Bell’s Obselidia is one of 16 films selected from 1,058 submissions for the Dramatic Competition for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.  

Written and directed by Bell the movie is described as a “save-the-world love story.” The film tells the story of a lonely librarian who believes love is obsolete until a road trip to Death Valley with a captivating cinema projectionist teaches him otherwise. Shot on the Red Camera (digital), featuring a score by UK musician Liam Howe and starring a mostly unknown cast Gaynor Howe (Home and Away), Michael Piccirilli, and Frank Hoyt Taylor. Sundance describes the film as “soft spoken, profound, and disarmingly charming” portraying a “rare and humane lens through which we can view a world increasingly preoccupied with and inhabited by extinction.”