Crown of Dust
A retired rodeo medic returns to a desert county fair after a dust storm reveals the buried crown from a missing pageant queen.
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The story
Mara Voss swore she would never work another fairground accident. When a wall of dust uncovers a silver crown under the arena, the county's oldest missing-person case opens in front of thousands of spectators. Mara follows hoofprints, ambulance records, and a rival family's silence before the final bull ride erases the evidence again.
- Original title
- Crown of Dust
- Land / Region
- Vereinigte Staaten · Vereinigtes Königreich
- Genres
- Thriller · Drama
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 92:00
- Director
- Caleb Roan
Creative process
Director, editor, rights reviewer, English dialogue editor and US rights reviewer, and producer approve creative, legal, and cultural outputs.
Human-led story development, screenplay polish, casting bible, and rights review; Runway Gen-4.5 for primary cinematic plates; Google Veo 3.1 with Flow for physics, camera blocking, and alternate motion passes; Runway Aleph 2.0 for shot-level transformation and continuity fixes; Blender, Houdini, DaVinci Resolve Studio 20, Pro Tools, native-language review, and C2PA export.
- AI participation (source-declared)
- 75 %
- Creative method
- Realfilm mit KI
- Format
- Langfilm
- Resolution
- 4K
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1
- Frame rate
- 24 fps
- Delivery format
- 4K DCP, ProRes 4444 XQ master, H.265 review screener.
- Subtitles
- Englisch · Koreanisch · Thailändisch · Französisch · Spanisch · Deutsch · Arabisch