Hello great friends,
Keeping you updated and also, this is our last plea for the
final truth:
Principal photography begins on Friday and this movie is going to cost $25,000.
Principal photography begins on Friday and this movie is going to cost $25,000.
We have little time left to raise cash on IndieGoGo, so this
is what we are suggesting to everyone we’ve been badgering, requesting from,
looking deep into their eyes and wallets:
GIVE
and/or
POST THIS LINK anywhere you can: www.indiegogo.com/box
and then/or
Never read another one of my blog posts again?
Going to raise 9,000 more American greenbacks before
Wednesday.
We can do it. (Or we can go get jobs at Chase Manhattan Bank--)
So here we are. Humbly asking you. One little more time. Give, Post, Block, Repeat.
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And now, The BOX NEWS:
And now, The BOX NEWS:
First of all, the little town of Highland Falls has gotten into the movie
madness and they are going to put on their parking meter socks so we can have a
load of free street parking at our warehouse.
It’s cute there.
But even better, we have an amazing cast for BOX and here
they are:
Marsha Dietlein Bennett, Dylan Chalfy, Lou Liberatore, Mink
Stole and Alfred Damm
See the wonderful faces of these great talents, here:
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134 of you, to be exact, have already donated to the making
of BOX, along with our Corporate Angel, SONY. We are so grateful. Thank you so much!
And now for Camera news:
With much aid from our extremely talented Director of
photography, we have acquired the use of the SONY F65 camera! Along with a
camera package (lenses, etc.), that requires a truck to haul the many cases.
Our DP is so respected and admired that she and Sony have partnered and Sony
will be using footage from BOX to promote this camera, along with making a
behind-the-scenes movie of the making-of-the-movie. We are one of the earliest
short films to be given this opportunity. Mr. M. Night Shyamalan is shooting
his current feature film on the Sony F65 right now. Increased depth of field
and many new features will make the Sony F65 the industry standard for digital
movie making. (Until something else comes along, one imagines…)
This movie got kinda buzzy and we could not scrimp on staff
nor design…and we are not. The top notch crew is working for peanuts. But those
allergens add up…25,000 dollars worth of them to be exact.
Our Story
BOX is a short film about people craving intimacy. How they
suffer when intimacy is lost. How they succeed when they live inside of it. And
how, possibly, the ones who are good at it can help the ones who are not so
good.
Zak and Paula are married but they barely understand each
other. Zak has an appointment with Peter, a man in a gender neutral
outfit, who attempts to help him.
Helen works with Peter to help Zak find his way and lends
her special magic to all she encounters. Will Helen and Peter’s simple gift of
a Box reveal a new way forward for Paula? Maybe…
All in eleven minutes at three locations. (A kitchen, a
warehouse and a beautiful Seventeenth Century Dutch Stone Farmhouse on Five
Acres with a pond and gardens.)
A shout of gratitude to Mink Stole of John Waters fame and
Lou Liberatore from the original Broadway cast of Burn This who are playing Helen and Peter. To our leads, Marsha
Dietlein Bennett and Dylan Chalfy, who are playing Paula and Zak, a wildly
talented pair. To extremely talented newcomer, Andreas Damm. To Jendra
Jarnagin, our wonderful Director of Photography, Sony darling, whose work can
be seen in the above video. Chrissy Conant, installation artist and painter,
will be our production designer. Micah Bloomberg, the fantastic Indie Film
Sound King (Frozen River
This budget will cover:
Five Actors
CoProducer
Associate Producer
Assistant Director
Director of Photography
First Assistant Camera
Second Assistant Camera
Sound
Gaffer (lights)
Grip (muscle)
Swing (Gaffer and Grip helper)
3 PA’s
Production Designer
Two Set Dressers/Props
Wardrobe
Casting Director
Rental space for Casting
Sets-Props
Hair-Makeup
Script Supervisor
D.I.T. (Digital management)
Hard Drives
Transportation (Passenger Van, Cube truck)
Steadicam
Equipment rental
Food
Editor
Sound Mixer
Insurance
DVD copies
And SOME festival fees
(Feel free to use this list to make your own movie!)
Everyone involved is a full career level professional who is
joining this project based on the script and on us.
Movies can’t make themselves. Come in. Get Close. Open your Box.
May you have everything you desire.
Thanks,
Chris and Don
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