Off Grid has been kicking around my hard drive in one form or another since 2014. I’d written three feature length scripts by that point, and as with most writers starting out in a field, had encountered a slew of rejections. So I decided I’d film something myself on a micro-budget, and try and persuade friends to be in it. I even went and bought a phone with a highly recommended camera on it for the task. The script I came up for this was the first draft of Off Grid, a short