MARQUETTE — Seventeen-year-old scriptwriter and filmmaker Jonathan Perry directed a large budget short film “Subnivean” that was filmed in Marquette and Ishpeming the last week of December 2018.

Perry’s “Subnivean” will debut in the Marquette Cinema on June 4. Community members are invited to attend the film premiere, where they will see many familiar scenes shot on our local landscape. Additionally, “Subnivean” will be released globally on Amazon Prime on June 12, making Perry the youngest director on any major streaming service platform.

The film “Subnivean” introduces the viewer to two young brothers and their troubled relationship.

Perry states in a film synopsis, “After a vicious chase home from gathering firewood, an innocent boy unknowingly leads his brother to fall through an isolated pond. The boy has to accept and use his twisted hallucinations of hatred as his only hope to break the ice and save his brother in time or die trying.”

To create “Subnivean,” Perry collaborated with more than two dozen students at Northern Michigan University, providing them valuable industry experience. Students were in charge of production, camera operation, lighting, location scouting, audio, marketing, funding, and editing. Additionally, Perry partnered with a crew member who was a part of the “Transformers 5” movie, and EDM band ODESZA for promotional sound mixing.

Perry is from Sandusky, Ohio, and began his early career in the film industry four years ago when he began writing scripts online for other filmmakers by selling the copyright to his work. After writing nearly 40 scripts over the course of two years, Perry made a total of nearly $10,000.

After being offered a large sum of money for his script “Subnivean,” Perry decided “Subnivean” may be his golden ticket into directing his first large budget feature film. When deciding on film locations, Perry worked with a Hollywood grade location scout and decided that the natural beauty of the Upper Peninsula and the frozen bodies of water in Ishpeming made for the perfect location to film “Subnivean.”

To get an exclusive look at Perry’s “Subnivean,” text “Subnivean” to 555888. Additionally, the “Subnivean” team will be posting exclusive content that can be found on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter named across all platforms at @subniveanmovie.