"Magellan" was very much born from my morbid fascination with Middle School. Those transitional years sandwiched between Saturday morning cartoons and teenage angst, prevail as some of the most traumatic, awkward, and cut-throat times in a person’s life. Hopefully you walk away with a scrap of battle-tested confidence...and maybe the ability to escape from inside a gym-locker.

“Magellan” also showcases my childhood home of Atlanta, Georgia. Seemingly overnight, I watched the city transform into a global corporate mecca, leaving behind the fossils of old cotton gin factories, defunct railroad tracks clogged with kudzu, and impoverished housing projects butting against million dollar cookie-cutter townhouses.

Having lived in California for the last decade, this film offered a chance to return home and work on an authentic Southern creation: crewed and cast almost completely locally.

    -Sebastian Davis