Director: Chris Dane Owens, Jason Schulz
Empire Queen: The Golden Age of Magic arrived in 2024 as an American fantasy adventure built around a striking visual style, expanding the world first glimpsed in the companion music videos "Shine On Me" and "Light Speed" into a full feature-length story of magic and empire.
What is Empire Queen The Golden Age of Magic about?
The story centers on a queen presiding over an empire built on magic, where music and ritual shape political power as much as swords do. Court factions vie for influence while the queen navigates alliances and rivalries that test her authority. Visually, the film extends its origins as a pair of music videos into a nearly two-and-a-half-hour adventure, layering elaborate costuming and staged tableaux over a loose quest structure. Audiences drawn to fantasy worlds built more on atmosphere and imagery than tight plotting will find plenty to look at across its runtime, from ceremonial set pieces to sweeping outdoor locations.
Cast & crew
Chris Dane Owens, who co-directed alongside Jason Schulz, also appears on screen, joined by Valerie Baber, Ciel Post, Mary Elise Hayden, Jano Janosik, Cortney Lofton, and Cielle Thompson in an ensemble built around the film's music-video roots.
Context & significance
Produced in the United States and released in 2024, the film sits at the independent end of the fantasy-adventure genre, aimed at viewers who followed the "Shine On Me" and "Light Speed" videos and want to see that aesthetic stretched across a full story. Its 148-minute runtime is unusually long for an independent production in this genre, giving the visual and musical elements room to breathe rather than rushing toward a conventional three-act structure.
Where & how to watch
Empire Queen: The Golden Age of Magic can be streamed on K-Time after signing in with a free account; browsing the page itself requires no login. K-Time's interface is built around Farsi-speaking audiences, with a Persian-language menu and search experience sitting alongside English-language titles like this one.