''MindGamers'' is a 2015

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film directed by Andrew Goth. The film was theatrically released on March 28, 2017 through Terra Mater Factual Studios. The film stars Tom Payne,

Dominique Tipper Dominique Jade Tipper (born 24 June 1988) is a British actress, dancer and singer-songwriter. She rose to prominence in her role as Naomi Nagata, the engineer in the SyFy/ Amazon Prime Video science fiction television series '' The Expanse''. ...

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, Melia Kreiling,

Antonia Campbell-Hughes Antonia Campbell-Hughes is an actress, writer, director and former fashion designer from Northern Ireland. She is best known for playing Natascha Kampusch in 3096 Days, Marie-Antoinette in Dangerous Liaisons and the titular role in Cordelia. ...

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and

Oliver Stark Oliver Leon Jones (born June 27th 1991), known professionally as Oliver Stark, is a British actor. He is best known for his roles as Evan "Buck" Buckley in ''9-1-1'' on Fox, and as Ryder in AMC's martial arts-based drama ''Into the Badlands''. ...

Plot

A group of students attempt to create a wireless neural network of collective consciousness connected through a

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. They discover that

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can be transferred through quantum theory and freely spread their technology, which they believe is a step towards intellectual freedom. The group later discovers they are a part of a larger, more sinister experiment.

Cast

* Tom Payne as Jaxon *

as Maddie *

as Kreutz *

Melia Kreiling Melia Kreiling (born ) is an actress. She is known for her roles on television series such as ''Tyrant'' and ''The Last Tycoon'', and for her starring role as Alycia in the second season of the CBS summer series ''Salvation''. She also has a bri ...

as En.o.ch *

as Agnes *

as Rollo *

as Dylan *

Ryan Doyle Ryan Doyle (born 22 September 1984) is a freerunner, martial artist, coach, and actor from Liverpool, England, and is a founding athlete of the World Freerunning and Parkour Federation. Freerunning and parkour interests In his teenage years, ...

as Voltaire *Simon Paisley-Day as Assessor *Pedja Bjelac as Mosca *

Ursula Strauss Ursula Strauss (born 25 April 1974) is an Austrian actress. She is best known for her role as Inspector Angelika Schnell in the television series ''Schnell ermittelt''. Strauss was born in Melk Melk (; older spelling: ) is a city of Austria, in ...

as Da'Silva

Marketing

In October 2016, Terra Mater Factual Studios, a production unit of Red Bull Media House, globally released an online escape room game ''Mission: Unlock Enoch'' based on the film. In January 2017,

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reported that one thousand movie goers would be able to participate in a live experiment during the release of the film by wearing a cognitive headband to "enable scientists to capture the cognition state of the participants simultaneously via cloud technology and collect data in real time."

Release

The film was released theatrically on March 28, 2017 through Terra Mater Films and

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References

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