***UPDATES**: 3/22 - A huge THANK YOU to our 9 funders so far. We are on the road to telling this very important story!
What is "Homo Sapien Urbanus" about?
Homo Sapien Urbanus, a feature documentary will explore the challenges facing our cities: rapid urbanization, increasing consumption and chronic poverty. Confronting these challenges facing our cities is in effect, confronting our very survival on this planet.
We must wake up and realize that the choices we make now dramatically affect how humans survive in the future. We are reaching a tipping point on this planet, will we wake up and choose to develop sustainably? Or will we continue on the path to our extinction?
"Sustainability? Why should I care?
Our survival is at stake and we must all do whatever we can to make sure that everybody on this planet has a chance to live up to their potential and have decent future.
The power of film is massive and far reaching, as filmmakers we have the ability to get the message of sustainability to the widest audience.
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Meet the Urbanus team
Director - Kyle Moore
Kyle is a freelance filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Born in central Florida, Kyle became interested in film and photography at a young age. After relocating to California in 2002, he attended USC and the Los Angeles Film School with a concentration in cinematography and directing. He has since worked as Director of Photography on the feature documentaries "Anne Richards Texas" as well as "Market 2.0" A world traveler, Kyle has filmed in Cameroon for the UN Foundation's malaria eradication effort, in addition to working on an independent travel show across North America.
Producer - Trina DeMattei
Trina DeMattei originally hails from Northern California where she spent twenty years in the theatre as an actor, director & stage manager. She attended The Los Angeles Film School graduating in August 2008 with an emphasis on Producing. As a Producer, Trina has worked from script to screen on independent features, documentary features and travel related media. Trina has shot in a myriad of formats and shooting conditions throughout the world. From shooting in the developing world such as Haiti in 2009 with the feature documentary, “Conversations with the Living” to a fishing boat in the North Atlantic off the coast of Prince Edward Island for an independent travel show. She is a self proclaimed vagabond having traversed across 15 countries and numerous continents. Trina considers herself a citizen of the world and feels proud to be a part of the creative team for HSU. Most recently she has worked in production for AMC, The History Channel, Nickelodeon and MTV.
Why do we need your help?
As much as we wish our own savings could sustain us, we have realized after budgeting that we need to work to raise additional funds. To start the first phase of filming we are hoping to raise enough to get us on the road!!!
For the first round of filming we are starting in our home country, the US. We will traveling to:
New York City
Washington D.C.
Miami
Your dollars will go directly to:
*Getting us on the road! (Airline tickets, hotels, transportation)
*Crew
*Equipment
*Insurance
*Advertising & marketing costs to get us to the next phase!
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What do you get???
Check out our list of awesome appreciation gifts. In addition, we hope to continue to come up with cool incentives for you to become a supporter of Homo Urbanus.
Other ways you can help!
Some people just can’t contribute, but that doesn’t mean they can’t help:
*Follow us us on Twitter
*Like us on Facebook
*Tell your friends!
*We are also looking for in-kind donations: places to stay on the road, help with graphics, a helping hand!!
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