Fear Project

Source: An 11:11 Experience. Photo credits: Cameron Radice (Lawson), Anne Wilson (Valleroy)

Anzu Lawson (left), Christopher Valleroy

Los Angeles-based film and theatre company An 11:11 Experience has set a July production start for The Fear Project: Part One – Trauma and revealed the docu-thriller’s ensemble cast. 

Written and directed by 11:11 principal Michael Leoni, the film will star Christopher Valleroy, Anzu Lawson, Victoria Baldesarra, Billy Keogh, Marilyn Sanabria, Brinnen Thompson, Avi Levin and Sheena Metal. 

Filming will take place in Los Angeles and Huntington Beach. Leoni and 11:11’s Erica Katzin are producing, with Mark Burley serving as executive producer. 

The Fear Project: Part One – Trauma follows a film student (played by Valleroy) who returns to his home town to shoot a documentary on fear, only to confront his own childhood fears and discover a twisted past. 

The film, which is being aimed at the 2026 festival circuit, is planned as the first entry in a series, to be followed by The Fear Project: Part Two – Grief

An 11:11 Experience focuses on creating projects that promote social change, with past features having included American Street Kid, When Today Ends and Famous. The company is also a producer of stage plays, with recent Broadway and Off-Broadway credits including Othello, with Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, and Call Me Izzy, with Jean Smart.