Pattern Films

Company Overview

Pattern Films is a production company specializing in systematic cinema and character-driven storytelling. Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, we develop projects that find structure within constraint and meaning within form.

Principals

Liana Marie Sive

Writer / Producer

Background in systematic research and complex narrative development. Author of The First Fault-Line. Graduate work at UC San Diego and Caltech. She writes films about people who arrive late—to responsibility, to clarity, to courage—and who discover that lateness doesn't disqualify them.

Eugene B. Sive Jr.

Cinematographer / Producer

50+ years of experience in film and television production. Visual storytelling with emphasis on practical, location-based shooting. His approach: sincerity is static; competence moves. The camera doesn't chase. It observes.

Projects in Development

RECALL

Feature Film Comedy-Drama 122 minutes

When a small New Mexico town's mayor is recalled for corruption, an obscure charter clause installs the second-place finisher—a conspiracy podcaster who got 43 votes. His paranoia has roots: his mother was a downwinder who died of cancer while the government denied responsibility. He's looking in the wrong place, but for the right reasons.

Now he has real power. With monsoon season approaching, he tries to fix a flooding street and pass a contractor Verification Ordinance—and the council president who runs the machine tries to stop him by weaponizing procedure and threatening the one relationship Gil can't afford to lose.

Tone: The Holdovers meets Being There.

Screenplay Complete

Case 1638: The Cinematic Machine

Feature Film Systematic Cinema 202 minutes

An experimental feature structured around the 1-6-3-8 pattern and 81.6 Hz frequency systems. The film explores the 1927 Schattendorf incident through a framework of absolute constraint.

Pre-Production

Double or Nothing / Doppel oder Nichts

Stage Play Systematic Theatre Three Acts

A bilingual theatrical work structured around the 1-6-3-8 pattern. The trap works. The audience is implicated.

Target markets: Berlin, Vienna, New York.

Script Complete

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Access to professional sound stages, diverse locations, and the New Mexico film incentive program (25-35% refundable tax credit).