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Released
2011 · FILM

Tornado Alley

Directed by
Runtime
44 min
Documentary

Synopsis

Tornado Alley documents two unprecedented missions aimed at encountering one of Earth's most awe-inspiring events—the birth of a tornado. Filmmaker Sean Casey's personal quest to capture the formation of a tornado using a 70mm camera takes viewers on a visually striking journey into the heart of the storm. A team of similarly driven scientists, the VORTEX2 researchers, experience the immense power of nature's elemental forces as they physically surround tornadoes and the supercell storms that generate them, collecting the most comprehensive severe weather data ever assembled.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 13

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Sean C CaseyScored by Trevor Morris

Box Office

2011 · Box office

Produced on a $4.0M budget

Production budget

$4.0M

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