DOCUMENTARY – “SURFING THE WILD EAST”
1) Description
In September of this year, the Blickinsfreie team together with professional surfers will embark on a three-week adventure through the Caucasus Eurasia with a mission to surf the Caspian Sea just north of Baku, Azerbaijan. Fusing the intentions to expose new surf territory with a fever for adventure and foreign land, our mission is to deliver a compelling story to an audience of core surf enthusiasts on a global level.
The three-week journey, set to be a documentary through a tri-media production of video, photography and text, will take this team through the ancient and exotic regions of Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. We will find and follow exotic surf spots along the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, while inter-twining surf sessions with adventure to create our story. Our footage will capture unique encounters from cultures and characters dripping with once-in-a-lifetime opportunities at our fingertips. A selection of professional surfers will join as fully motivated athletes ready to paddle into new waters and participate in our featured mission with strong and committed intentions.
Besides being a movie project the idea involves a unique charity action which ensures the trunks of our busses filled with free clothing for the poor people in the countries we are going to visit.
Visual media output will be widespread and includes a 4 – 6 episode documentary series of 8 – 10 minutes each. These episodes will be distributed on core boardsport and lifestyle websites on an international level. Furthermore there will be a 26-minute TV show ready to be distributed worldwide.
In addition we will produce a stunning photography report including a unique blog journal and compelling storyline that will cover this adventure with clever, creative and absorbent text. We aim to share our story in both print and online surf media worldwide.
2) What the project needs
As a tightly knit and devoted team, we are currently seeking sponsorships to help fund our three-week excursion from September 26 to October 16.
The whole concept of production will be as innovative and modern as possible. We will work with new ways of crowd funding like www.indiegogo.com. To jumpstart our incentive and commitment, Blickinsfreie.de has released a donation fundraiser to encourage sponsorship if monetary support is preferred. It´s possible to make donations through www.blickinsfreie.de
The money will go straight into this project.
3) What we offer our backers
We want to design this as a open source project with different benefits for backers. Here are some of the benefits depending on the ammount of the fund:
→ free High Definition download of the movie as soon as released
→ implementation of the backer in the movie credits
→ free access to all footage after the movie release to make an edit on their own. (sending of harddrives is of course required)
→ bonus for all of us using indiegogo – implementation of indiegogo in the movie intro & credits (logo, weblink, etc.)
4) References
to find out about me and my past projects, please visit my website www.blickinsfreie.de
here are some links to my last projects:
http://blickinsfreie.de/films/completed/documen...
http://blickinsfreie.de/films/completed/documen...
http://blickinsfreie.de/films/completed/short-a...
here also the link of this project in planning stage:
http://blickinsfreie.de/films/planning-stage/su...
if you have further questions about the project, please contact me and i´m more than happy to answer them.
i hope this project makes you interested and my past projects show you that this movie is going to be a success if it gets funded.
Come help us realizing this new project – we would appreciate it a lot!
Thanks so much for your support!
René Eckert
www.blickinsfreie.de
