What if you could spend your life never sleeping? What would you do with the extra hours in each day?
Would you be productive or just spend the time watching TV? These are the questions explored in the new film “Echolocation,” directed by Eric Stoltz and starring Kyle Schmid as a man named John who discovers he no longer needs to sleep.

Schmid recently sat down with FlickDirect to discuss the challenges of portraying a character who doesn’t sleep, as well as the benefits of having Eric Stoltz as both his director and co-star
But what if this blessing turned out to be a curse? Would constant wakefulness bring you closer to the mysteries of the universe? Or would it drive you mad?

Nathan Fisk, a brilliant yet socially awkward astrophysicist, believed that the answer to these questions might lie within the universe itself. Living alone, he had made remarkable discoveries on the nature of dark matter, and was on the cusp of making another breakthrough. Yet his relent