Gina Torres and Kip Pardue are headlining "South of Pico," which begins shooting this week in Los Angeles with Ernst Gossner, making his theatrical directorial debut. The tale of four ordinary people who witness an accidental death, the film also stars Paul Hipp, Henry Simmons, Jimmy Bennett and Soren Fulton. A Snails Pace production in association with Vent Productions, the project has been financed through private equity and the Tyrolean Film Fund; written by Gossner and Richard Marcus; and produced by Eric Presley, Gossner and Marcus, with Ralf Mosig as exec producer and David Lee as co-exec producer.