OIL CITY, Pa. (EYT) – For Oil City filmmaker Matt Croyle, his first feature-length film, “Potential Inertia,” has special meaning.
“Potential Inertia” revolves around a young man, Declan Holmes, who is graduating from college and about to make the transition to the “real world.” As he’s going through this life-changing time, he’s faced with losing people that matter and struggles to process and ultimately deal with those losses.
Matt said that he “first put pen to paper, beginning the first draft, fifteen years ago this year.”
After graduating from Clarion University, Matt moved to Charlotte, got married, and worked normal jobs.
“I dabbled in the script from time-to-time, but it was more-or-less on the back burner, he said. “My marriage didn’t work out, so upon moving back to Pennsylvania, I decided that I needed an outlet for a lot of the feelings I was having — and so, I began work on the script. I finished the first draft rather quickly. It felt good to put myself — what I was feeling — into the story. It’s ultimately a story about loss.”