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The Year of LEOM​

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.

A story about agency: taking action without outsourcing your thinking.

Official trailer

The submitted cut, 2 minutes 40, filed August 15, 2026 with the cover sheet and treatment. Garrett will be at the Future Vision XPRIZE gathering in Los Angeles on September 25 either way, finalist or not. Fellow competitor? Say hello; contact is at the bottom of this page.

Watch on YouTubeRead the treatmentTrailer page, synopsis, credits
FUTURE VISIONXPRIZE

LEOM was made for the Future Vision XPRIZE, a global competition for hopeful, compelling visions of an abundant future. Trailer, cover sheet, and treatment submitted August 15, 2026.

Future Vision XPRIZE partnersXPRIZE FoundationGoogleRange Media PartnersSalesforce
ARK Invest · Xsolla · SandboxAQ · Republic Film · Foresight Institute · Roddenberry Foundation

Premise

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. In a high-flying, gut-dropping adventure filled with heart & embracing hardship as fuel, your new band of brothers & sisters race against time to make the world an even better place. Adventure & discovery for all, out amongst the stars.

Every creative choice revolves around one guiding principle: agency, displayed on even the stage & technological ability of tomorrow. The film argues it; every frame is built to perform it. On screen that argument is physical: intentional movement and deliberate stillness, weight and consequence earned in flight.

The writing soundtrack

WRITING 'LEOM': the playlist the story is being written to (not the film's score). Press play, or pick a track to jump the queue. Also on YouTube and Spotify.

The world

The map of the world, in concept art. Stills from the trailer join it as the cut settles.

Waterfront celebration beneath Year-of-LEOM banners: crowds, spire arches, and a busy harbor
The Year of LEOM
A planet at peace, mid-celebration; society in a holding pattern of abundance and anticipation for the stars
The quantum alien vessel family: faceted sail-like ships gliding on calm water
The Quantum Aliens
Non-humanoid visitors who scaled themselves to us
A ring megastructure folded open around a dark aperture, the signature jump event
Unfold a Black Hole
Travel, folded open at will. Powered by our new alien friends
A lightspeed starship in orbit over Earth, outbound for the receiving ports
Ships & Ports
Lightspeed gets you to port. The jump takes you everywhere else
Retro-future athletic footwear, visual reference for Neolax kit
Neolax
The sport of jetpacks and scythe-staffs
Hand-built pressure glove, craft reference for the Savage Spacesuits
The Savage Spacesuits
3D printed, assembled by our seamstress & costume designer
Separation Day over a networked city: the sky's intelligence withdrawing while human lights stay warm
Chipheads
The ones who gave the wheel away
Public telepresence booth, exterior and cutaway: step in here, wake up off-world
Telepresence
Step into a booth, operate off-world
Crew EVA suit concept: quilted white pressure suit with hard-shell pack
The Crew
Five people and one borrowed ship
Monumental sentinel towers rising over the Capital's skyline
The Capital
Where the frontier gets gated
A quiet hillside village of timber-and-stone homes, where balance is taught in stillness
The Elder's Village
Balance, taught in stillness
Zero-G performance rig movement study: wires, redirects, and the approved flight envelope
Flight Vocabulary
Movement studies for zero-G performance

Building LEOM Sprint Series

The daily build-in-public series that carried the trailer to the August 15 submission: one day, one action, no outsourced thinking. Episodes run in order, from day one.

Watch the series on YouTubeEpisode index and transcripts
“Why wait till tomorrow? We can do it today.”
Building LEOM Sprint Series · Day 1