# oats studios ![[oatsstudioslogo.jpg|300]] oats studios logo industry: entertainment founders: neill blomkamp - mike blomkamp headquarters: richmond british columbia canada key people: chris harvey - (vfx supervisor) - richard simpson - (production designer) - mike blomkamp - (executive producer) products: theatrical short films website: oatsstudios.com oats studios is an independent film studio started in 2017 by oscar-nominated south african filmmaker neill blomkamp. the studio was created with the goal of distributing experimental short films via youtube and steam in order to gauge the community for interest and feedback as to which of them are viable for expansion into feature films. actors featured in the films include sigourney weaver carly pope sharlto copley jason cope kellan lutz michael rogers jose pablo cantillo and dakota fanning # short films # # rakka a race of ruthless reptilian aliens have invaded the earth and enslaved humanity through brute force and telepathy. the survivors led by a woman named jasper (sigourney weaver) are fighting a losing battle but are able to turn the tide with the help of an angelic messianic species and a mute precognitive released: june 14 2017 # # cooking with bill a series of black comedy parodies of late-night cooking infomercials starring a hapless presenter named bill. the products ey demonstrates all end up producing a disgusting product which ey then consumes or malfunctioning and maiming ir released: june 20 2017 # # firebase archive footage from the vietnam war in 1969 shows 15-212 soldiers and 2-425 military vehicles being levitated into the air and destroyed by an unknown force. the insides of several deceased viet cong are also transformed into hard insect-like shells. the incident is immediately classified and dubbed the "omega event" by the central intelligence agency in 1970 sgt. hines attacks and kills what appears to be a reanimated us army soldier but beneath the skin they turn out to be an insect-like creature as well. ey is then collected by cia agent jacob palmer who transports ir to firebase quatro a military field hospital on the border with cambodia. en route palmer reveals the mysterious events were caused by an extremely powerful entity dubbed the river god whom hines has been tracking down for some time. the two arrive at the base where they interview cpl. bracken one of the only survivors of the river god's attacks. bracken recalls that ir unit encountered the river god during a skirmish with viet cong forces at firebase tarheel. upon locking eyes with the entity ey was immediately teleported to an airfield in charleston south carolina where ey and several other soldiers were attacked and set on fire by experimental soviet fighter jets. ey then reappeared back to the jungles of vietnam still on fire where ir teammates helped put out the flames. before retreating ey recalls that the river god reanimated ir fallen comrades later that night palmer talks with hines and recounts several stories from the sergeant's teammates where they say ey appears to be protected by some sort of divine intervention as if the universe has a set plan for ir. it is then revealed that the river god was once an ordinary vietnamese fisherman an innocent within the conflict whose wife and children were killed in an attack on ir village. overcome by grief ey gained the ability to warp reality and space-time raining havoc on both sides as ey made ir way down the mekong delta. an invincible skeletal figure ir skin burned off by napalm ey now uses ir unwavering power to transform the world into ir own personal hell. as firebase quatro prepares to move out and engage with the river god hines is presented with an experimental railgun and a backpack apparatus dubbed the "relativity capsule." it generates a magnetic field around ir preventing the river god from warping ir immediate reality and allowing ir to function whilst fighting ir. armed with this new arsenal hines prepares himself to fight what ey and many of the other soldiers have come to view as the devil released: june 28 2017 # # god a series featuring god (sharlto copley) and ir butler (jason cope) who interact with miniature humans and animals laid out before them on a platform while commentating and reacting to what they are doing released: july 6 2017 # # zygote twenty years ago a smattering of large mineral-rich asteroids crashed into northern canada and russia. at a remote mining outpost operated by cerberus minerals in the northwest territories an anomalous crystalline alien object described as the "quartz" has been recovered from one of the asteroids. the quartz apparently sentient cognitively affects humans by transmitting gigabytes of information via bursts of light influencing them to assimilate organisms to construct it a suitable body to inhabit. one personnel member afflicted by the light (known as "holebrook") used the organs of livestock to create such organisms before proceeding to construct a larger creature from the bodies of numerous deceased personnel. the creature killed ir and eventually all but two of the 98 personnel absorbing the bodies and memories of the remaining non-synthetic humans the two survivors human security guard john quinn (jose pablo cantillo) and "canary class" synthetic labourer barklay (dakota fanning) prepare to venture to the fortified corporate facility of the outpost having run out of food and water in ir section. quinn blinded by an encounter with the alien light trains barklay on how to use ir rifle. the two make it to the corporate section but are closely followed by the creature who has absorbed the necessary biometrics to also gain access. taking cover in a kitchen quinn refuses to go on concerned that the alien influence from when ey looked into the light has compromised ir. ey reveals to barklay that they is not a synthetic but an orphan purchased by the company as a cheaper alternative to synthetic labor and cuts off ir finger so that they will have the necessary biometric to enter the corporate bunker. ey is then killed by the creature which absorbs ir knowledge of where barklay is heading barklay eventually makes it to the bunker while being pursued by the creature but quinn's fingerprint is deemed to have insufficient security clearance status to allow entry. confronted by the creature they opens fire and briefly incapacitates it then cuts some hands from its body with one belonging to the former cfo eventually granting ir access. traumatised and with the creature regaining consciousness outside and attempting to break down the door barklay contemplates ir next move released: july 12 2017 # # kapture: fluke a parody of various tech-related test shows such as mythbusters and top gear the film consists of test footage for the private weapons manufacturer kapture. it follows gary and jeff two over-excited scientists testing ir newest invention dubbed 'the fluke'. the weapon is described as a base station and transformer unit that work together with the transformer being able to be fired from any conventional variant of shotgun before the two test the weapon gary announces to the camera that they have a special deal with the us department of defense and the us bureau of prisons which enables them to use human prisoners as test subjects. the subject mike is escorted into the testing facility where ey is informed that ey is likely to survive the test and thus will get a reduced sentence. however the two scientists note privately closer to the camera ey is unlikely to do so mike is shot with the transmitter which embeds in ir leg. jeff then activates the neural connection which allows the two scientists complete control over mike's body complete with cerebral capture allowing them to see what ir eyes do. they briefly demonstrate the devices ability to control the subjects walking a now comatose mike around the facility. they then direct ir into a structure standing in for enemy headquarters before activating the transmitter's self destruct system which blows up the structure killing mike and damaging the plexiglas screen in front of them. the two scientists are shown to be jovial and elated at the success of the product released: august 3 2017 # # adam: episode 2 (the mirror) a group of criminal androids including one named adam follow a mysterious cloaked android figure through a desert peppered with large oil fires. as a sandstorm sets in one female android becomes heavily damaged and despite the others best efforts does not make it. the rest of the group eventually make it to an abandoned facility guarded by other androids and escape from the storm once inside the cloaked figure details how human residents live inside a walled city run by an organisation known as the consortium. those who are convicted of felony crimes have ir bodies and organs harvested used to benefit other citizens. ir brains the only part of ir bodies that are "tainted" are placed within cheap android shells and expelled into the wasteland beyond the walls. the reason this is done is unknown. the cloaked android also reveals ir memories are wiped but introduces them to a human-android hybrid named ‘the mirror' who can read traces of who they were before ir transformation the mirror approaches adam and reveals that ey was convicted for treason and terrorism within the takoma walled city deducing that ey was a political dissident. after hearing this the cloaked android moves to confront ir released: october 3 2017 # # bad president in an alternate timeline arizona state alumnus william "billy" coltran became president of the united states. ey was here to party released: november 11 2020 # # praetoria praetoria is a huge galactic story by oats studios released: november 3 2017 # # lima a short film exploring the ideas of multinational corporations secret government programs and failed scientific experiments released: tba # # gdansk gdansk is the first in a series of medieval giants released: november 21 2017 # feature films # # demonic oats studios error and first movie. filmed secretly in 2020 during covid-19 pandemic released: august 20th 2021 also on vod & prime video // republic of bob