LEOM · Official Trailer

Logline

In a golden age with nothing left to need, a young Neolax crew and a burned-out auditor uncover a corporate plot to close space travel to everyone, via a dangerous false flag.

Synopsis

Humanity solved abundance and found peace, and stalled. The gates that remain are technological, and behind the celebrations, someone wants those gates kept shut. LEOM follows a small crew who decide the frontier belongs to everyone, and go get their piece of it: a high-flying, gut-dropping adventure filled with heart, embracing hardship as fuel, a new band of brothers and sisters racing against time to make the world an even better place. Adventure and discovery for all, out amongst the stars.

Every creative choice revolves around one guiding principle: agency, displayed on even the stage and technological ability of tomorrow. The film argues it; every frame is built to perform it.

The competition

LEOM was made for the Future Vision XPRIZE, a global competition for hopeful, compelling visions of an abundant future. The submission is this trailer plus a cover sheet and treatment, filed August 15, 2026. Garrett will be at the gathering in Los Angeles on September 25 either way, finalist or not. Fellow competitor? Say hello; contact is at the bottom of this page.

How LEOM answers the brief

The competition judges on four dimensions. Where LEOM stands on each, in the film's own terms.

• 01 · Concept quality and execution
  Written first, then built shot by shot

  A story bible, treatment, and 195-shot storyboard came before a frame existed; the trailer was cut from a written animatic and every generated image was selected against its drawn board.

• 02 · Scale and ambition
  A civilization at abundance, and the stars past it

  A planet at peace, visitors who granted lightspeed, black holes folded open for travel, a port network reaching the near stars, and a trilogy to carry it.

• 03 · Mission alignment
  A future where everyone can thrive, and the fight to keep it open

  The stakes are not whether the future works; it does. The stakes are who gets to go. The crew decides the frontier belongs to everyone.

• 04 · Technology-forward storytelling
  Technology as partner, plot from people

  Fold travel, telepresence booths, jetpacks and the Neolax, an intelligence that gave the wheel away. None of it is the villain; the antagonist is a human plot to close a door the technology opened.

Credits

Written, directed, and produced by Garrett Sullivan. A Growth Advisory production, Phoenix, Arizona. Follow the making-of in the Building LEOM series.