A SHOT AT THE BIG TIME
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| You can have your Shot At The Big Time |
- A SHOT AT THE BIG TIME
South African scriptwriter and film lecturer, Janet van Eeden, is raising funds for the short film version of her feature film in development, A Shot at the Big Time, in a very peculiar way.
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| Janet Van Eeden |
Screen Africa got hold of the story whereby it states that Janet Van Eeden, is actually giving you the ordinary person a opportunity
to invest in her film, but don’t take it from us here is what Van Eeden has to
say about it: “A Shot at the Big Time is inspired by the story of my brother,
Jimmy, who took his own life rather than fight in the apartheid Border War, a war
he didn't believe in. I’ve been writing scripts for 15 years and wrote the
script for the internationally acclaimed White Lion (2010). It has taken nine
years to write this rather painful story about my brother’s experience and it’s
finally ready to be filmed.”
She then added, “I've launched a crowd-sourcing campaign on
IndieGoGo.com to raise production funds for this film after the conventional
fundraising platforms didn't help me. This film is timeless; a film about the
young men who gave up their lives to fight in a war some of them had no desire
to fight. As you well know, every white boy in South Africa in the seventies,
eighties and early nineties was conscripted into military service. Most of
today’s youth don’t know this at all.”
Van Eeden noted that she already managed to crowd-source
with amazing people, “I didn’t realise how much crowd-sourcing is as much about
finding incredible people to help on this project as it is about money.
So far we have: Paul Dwyer’s graphic design company who have
produced an exquisite poster through the skills of Justin Webber in Australia;
local communications / PR consultant Sharlene Versfeld has done stirling duty
as our press agent; and wonderful Mayan Films’s producer Magda Olchawska is
keeping me on my toes and thinking big – just what I needed. Cal Harding, IT
maestro is working his wizardry with the Shot website. Don van Orr has just
shot the new promo piece.
He’s an award-winning young director, so I can’t wait to see
what he comes up with. The astoundingly efficient Yvonne Spain has offered her
services as Administrative Controller. Did I mention these are all pro bono? “
“What we really need is production funding. IndieGoGo
verifies everything so you know I’m not going out to buy an SUV with the money.
And we're not asking for money for nothing. Just $10 gives you a co-producer's
credit and $100 gets you a copy of the novel Width of a Thread, which is based
on the screenplay, and a Radio Rats CD. (A number of songs have already been
written by Jonathan Handley of the former Radio Rats.) A $1,000 gets you all of
the above, plus a chance to appear in the film in a crowd scene, as well as to
send in your auditions for the roles. The main roles will be auditioned online.
See our first two clips online now.”
Anyone interested in becoming a co-producer on A Shot at the
Big Time can click on the following links:
The direct link to the Indiegogo Campaign:
Interview on LitNet here on the whole campaign around A Shot
at the Big Time.
Link to the page on Facebook:
Link to Van Eeden's personal website:
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