Our Story

Brian White has lived in the Northeast Ohio area his entire life.  After losing a young relative to drunk driving, White believes that in one way or another, weve all had our lives affected by drunk driving.  Filmmaker Jonathan Koenig is joining White with a singular vision to make a feature film that will change the way people view independent features, using unconventional production techniques, a meticulous thought process and most importantly, embracing their work as a labor of love.  Their goal is simple: To make an intelligent and captivating film rich in production value and grounded in reality, while leveraging the ever-popular horror/revenge genre to force viewers to think, and ultimately care about, the characters in the film and the events happening onscreen.  The city of Cleveland will prominently be on display throughout.

The films Official website can be found at www.amywantsrevenge.com. 

We plan to begin filming this fall with a proposed budget of $90,000.  

The Impact

While subject matter pertaining to and explored within the revenge/thriller genre is nothing new, we guarantee Amys raw emotion and redeeming qualities will win you over, not to mention the unorthodox filmmaking techniques that will be applied.  Like Scream did in the 90s to slasher films, we hope to provide a breath of fresh air to the R-rated thriller community.  We are committed to making an entertaining yet intelligent film, grounded in reality, which will force the viewers to think.  We have garnered nothing but positive praise and feedback on the finalized screenplay and we are very excited to begin work on this project.  We are putting our hearts and souls into AMY because we believe in the finished product.  So likewise, we are looking for equally enthused and passionate contributors to help us bring our vision to the big screen.

The production team, crew and actors working on Amy are doing so on a completely voluntary basis (NO ONE is earning a salary).  Instead, we are putting the money where it belongs, in the films PRODUCTION VALUE. We are ambitiously setting out to make and create something special here.  Like Robert Rodriguez did for his hometown state of Texas, we want to put Cleveland on the map.  Sure there are those Avengers, Nickelodeon and Paramount productions currently going on here in Ohio, but when is the last time you have ever seen something homegrown from Cleveland truly make a splash in Hollywood?  That is our goalour passion and our commitment.  Its to make a film with rich, cinematic production value that rivals and hopefully topples most of our Western states competition. 

We have assembled a team of like-minded individuals all in this for the long haul because we have a product we strongly believe in and are committed to the end.  Filming will primarily be done on the weekends and we are expecting a 4-month shooting schedule (with a TBD start in September).  Allocation for budgeted funds include a used Red One camera package (guaranteed R.O.I. with post-production rentals), 15 studio monitor, lights, 4 TB hard drives for housing footage, food/craft services, costumes/wardrobe, props (including a junked car), makeup and effects (blood effects, pyrotechnics and a car explosion), legal work (contracts), insurance (hazard and liability), a local fundraising party, audio supplies (mics, etc), post production costs (5.1 audio mixing and editing), premiere screening, promotional material (artwork, posters, etc) and distribution (marketing, sales, etc).  A budget sheet that accurately displays these allocations of funds is available upon request.  A fight choreographer will work with four of the actors over the next few months rehearsing and constructing their fight scenes to give the film a more realistic and well-conceived look onscreen. 

Through private investments, within our core production team, we have already covered $22,000 of the $90,000 needed.  The additional $68,000 we need to raise in the next several months (online and through local fundraising events) will be used and allocated for everything mentioned above.

All of the filming will take place in locations throughout the greater Cleveland, OH area and surrounding communities.  We have already secured the necessary permissions to shoot at desired locations.  That means no permits!  We have also garnered the attention of local businesses and received sponsorship from local breweries and such for the marketing of their products.  That means free props for us!

What We Need & What You Get

Other Ways You Can Help

Any help monetarily or physically donated time and effort to help make this movie the BEST it can possibly be will always be more than appreciated.  Your kind heart and generosity will go a long way towards making sure every shot counts.  Every dollar donated will be stretched to the max to reap the maximum benefits of your donation.  We all have day jobs and we all know the value of money and how to make sure every applicable cent gets spent right.  That you can count on!  We are all hard working, dependable and after one common goalto make the finest product possible.

You can also help by spreading the word about Amy. 

Visit Amys Official home on the World Wide Web at www.amywantsrevenge.com and make sure you tell others about it. 

Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/amywantsrevenge.

Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/amythefilm.

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Contact us to see how you can help.

From the bottom of our hearts we thank each and every one of you, even if you did not contribute, but for taking time out of your busy schedule to read about our passions and how we plan on going about making our dream a reality.  Thank you!