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GENRE: FANTASY LOVE STORY / FISH OUT OF WATER
THE MAGIC LANTERN continues where the award winning short film THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF THE PROJECTIONIST left off.
Please take a look at THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF THE PROJETIONIST by clicking the video above. Make sure to stay tuned for the making of material after the credits to see our team in action.
Now that you've watched the cinema projectionist (played by Nikolai Kinski ) travel beyond the movie screen to come to the rescue of a silver screen starlet, let me give you a taste of things to come.
In the Magic Lantern, we follow him through a zoetrope of thrills, where he will swashbuckles from genre to genre, romancing girl after girl, indulging in a seemingly endless abundance of allure, wild thrills and desire.
It is only when he stumbles through the black and white streets of 1960s Paris as MARCEL, (an emotionally crippled young man pretending to be hard boiled) and has a chance encounter with GIGI CHEVALIER, the bourgeois mayor's daughter and ringleader of an existentialist book club, that he truly falls in love.
True to the gritty, hand held, improvised style of the French New Wave, Marcel will explore a budding relationship, growing from glorified vagabond in a pitiful state of self-loathing, into a sensitive and vulnerable adult.
Our hero will begin to feel alive again. But the fun is over when she gets pregnant. What now?
No Short Cuts, No Cheap Tricks
If you believe, like we do, that good, independent cinema requires passion bordering on insanity, then you've found the right team. Rest assured that we will do everything in our power to make it feel right. We are passionately obsessed with getting it right!
For the last three years we have been collecting scraps of the most quirky and unique 16mm 35mm and even IMAX film material available. Some of this material will never be available again! We have three refrigerators full of stock and a team that is itching to shoot!
We will film on cameras that some people might say belong in a museum, just to get the right look. We will record sound on tape decks that hiss and pop and weigh more than a brick, just to get the right sound.
We have hauled dusty old editing tables out of the basements of dead people so that we can edit by hand, we have built miniature sets to the most intricate detail so we can get impossible shots and our resident genius and kinematographer Benn Berbank Green has even invented his own processing machine, so that when push comes to shove and the lab quotes us with astronomical numbers, we can develop the film in a professional system of our own design.
In Marc-Oliver Lau we have an experienced and thrifty art designer. In Ingo Putze, we have an emmy award winning visual effects supervisor, in Danny Hahn, we have a brilliant, multi-talented composer.
Now we need YOU!
What We Need
With the success of the first film we have managed to secure federal film funding to the tune of 5,200 Euros. The Secret Adventures of the Projectionist cost approximately 10,000 euros in total (including distribution, festival entries etc.)
So we're half way there.
With a total budget of 10,000 euros we can pull it off again! (only even better)
Once our target has been met we will send you screenplay and storyboard. We'll shoot on location in Lyon and Berlin and regularly upload video updates to youtube and facebook.
You will be a part of the process, watching how your money is spent from the first shot to the final cut.
And as the project progresses, more exciting people will come on board. But we need your help to get started!
What You Get
Any friend who contributes 5 dollars or more will be invited to the premiere and see their name in the credits.
Fans who put down 50 dollars or more will also receive a DVD, signed poster, an original still frame of the movie and other goodies.
Patrons who contribute 500 or more will receive all of the above as well as a celluloid copy of The Secret Adventures of the Projectionist and The Magic Lantern on Super 8mm film!
Benefactors who contribute 1000 or more will receive all of the above plus a golden super 8 projector to enjoy the film again and again, the way it was meant to be seen.
Other Ways You Can Help
It's been a hard fight and we've come a long way. You can read all about the backstory of The Secret Adventures of the Projectionist at www.maxsacker.com or by flipping through any of the following reviews or publications:
Leave a comment, tell us what you think, join us and get the word out!
We'd love to hear from you....
Team on This Campaign:
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Max SackerDirector, Producer
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Danny HahnOriginal Score