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STAND UP AND DIE - the first film by a crowdfunded production company

STAND UP & DIE is a short B/W film shot on Super 8. The inaugural film project by what will be a crowdfunded production company dedicated to short films.

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STAND UP AND DIE - the first film by a crowdfunded production company

STAND UP AND DIE - the first film by a crowdfunded production company

STAND UP AND DIE - the first film by a crowdfunded production company

STAND UP AND DIE - the first film by a crowdfunded production company

STAND UP AND DIE - the first film by a crowdfunded production company

STAND UP & DIE is a short B/W film shot on Super 8. The inaugural film project by what will be a crowdfunded production company dedicated to short films.

STAND UP & DIE is a short B/W film shot on Super 8. The inaugural film project by what will be a crowdfunded production company dedicated to short films.

STAND UP & DIE is a short B/W film shot on Super 8. The inaugural film project by what will be a crowdfunded production company dedicated to short films.

STAND UP & DIE is a short B/W film shot on Super 8. The inaugural film project by what will be a crowdfunded production company dedicated to short films.

Omar Lopex
Omar Lopex
Omar Lopex
Omar Lopex
2 Campaigns |
San Diego, United States
$675 USD 12 backers
33% of $2,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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THE GIST

STAND UP & DIE is a short black and white film shot on Super 8. Part dream, part dynamo, part fantastic lie – a mongrel melodrama. A revenge story about a Poet who is an unredeemable villain. Leaving a wake of destruction in his path, using poetry as a weapon, to purely selfish ends.

I am filming in Super 8 because like other analog processes I’ve used, its dirtiness and imperfection helps me create a lie. It makes a magic reality where fantastic characters are not fake things in a real world, but rather real things in a fake world.

THE BIGGER GOAL

STAND UP AND DIE is the first part of a grander scheme: the start of a short film production company. I wil be using short crowdfunding campaigns to fund each film project. By focusing on short films I can:

  • make movies on a faster timeline while maintaining quality production
  • work with small budgets and constantly deliver new work without being impeded by long fundraising timetables

MEDIUM OF FILM

Beyond the film itself, this project is an exploration of the entire game of production: illusion and promises and delivering the goods.

I like the danger of film. As a medium, the accountability on the artist is so much more. People might complain a little about what they think is a bad art show, but if you make a bad movie, people actually get mad, angry. You’ve taken not only their money, but a decent chunk of their time. This is the kind of work I want to be making: work that risks actually being loved or hated.

ACCOUNTABILITY TO YOU

I’ve enjoyed my previous experiences with crowdfunding -- all of you who backed my last project were intimately tied to my work's production and success, and you taught me  a lot about how I want to incorporate this sort of public interaction into my approach to work.

I love the fact that I can put my stuff out there, and if you like it you support it, if not, you don’t and no hard feelings. Perhaps you support me on a film-by-film basis…perhaps you support me because you believe in the bigger idea: of a production company led by a filmmaker with complete creative control.

Even though I’m free from the restrictions that come with grants, commissions, or partnering with an institution, seeking funding from you, the crowd, doesn’t liberate me from accountability -- I am actually bound even more by this method of funding because although I don’t have to answer to anyone during my creative process, as my financiers I still feel personally accountable to you in producing good work. This does not mean that I am trying to make films that every single one of you will like, but rather, films that I can honestly say are the best work I can produce.

WHY SHOULD YOU GIVE?

  • You Love or Hate: Artists / Poets / Cinema / Analog processes / Art films
  • You want producer credit on my first film
  • You want to be a part of a production company that relies on crowdfunding to ensure that a filmmaker can retain complete creative control and produce projects based on passion and imagination

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You can also subscribe to the film's mailing list at the project site: www.standupanddie.com

HERE ARE THE PROJECT EXPENSES

  • Super 8 film - film / development / digital transfer
  • Actresses and production crew
  • Costumes and makeup
  • Promotion
  • Audio engineering
  • Initial Distribution, film festival entrance fees (first submission will be to the Raindance Film Festival in London)

THE TEAM

   

   

  • (left to right: Captain Burnett, Actor. Carter Burnett, Actor. Lisa Kalinin, Actress. Tara Gasparian, Actress. Omar Lopex, Writer/Director/Actor. Sulai Lopez, Costuming. Morgan Christensen, Production Consultant. Goldline Salon, Hair.)

ALSO!

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Ticket to San Diego Premier

$10 USD
A ticket to the premier of STAND UP AND DIE @ A Ship in the Woods Artspace in Del Mar, CA Film screening + QandA with Director and actors afterwards.
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February 2014
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Still foto from film

$15 USD
Choose one of 5 still fotos from the film. Enlarged from original Super 8 footage.
2 out of 50 of claimed

Screenprinted Movie Poster

$20 USD
Screenprinted movie poster signed by entire cast. Designed by artist Dusty Dirtweed - see preview in Updates tab (copy/paste link in browser) http://dustydirtweed.tumblr.com/
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February 2014
1 out of 50 of claimed

DVD + Digital copy of film

$25 USD
A custom-packaged DVD of STAND UP AND DIE + digital download of the film.
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February 2014
4 claimed

Script

$50 USD
Print version of Script and storyboard, in the style of this Moonrise Kingdom script (copy and paste link address in your browser): http://focusguilds2012.com/mrkscript/ + DVD and digital download of film
1 claimed

Set of 5 still fotos

$75 USD
Complete set of 5 select still fotos from film, enlarged from original Super 8 footage. + DVD and digital download of film + print version of Script
0 out of 50 of claimed

Be an Extra

$100 USD
Be an Extra in the film + 2 tickets to premier + DVD and digital download of film + print version of Script + set of 5 still fotos
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February 2014
2 out of 10 of claimed

Producer Credit

$200 USD
Producer credit in the film + 4 tickets to premier + DVD + digital download of film + print version of the Script + set of 5 still fotos
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February 2014
0 out of 5 of claimed

Director's script/storyboard

$300 USD
The original typewritten script with hand drawn storyboard, notes, movie stills and ephemera, in a specially bound artist book + 2 tickets to premier + set of 5 still fotos + DVD and digital download of film + Producer credit + Be an extra in the film
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February 2014
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Executive Producer credit

$500 USD
Executive Producer credit in the film + 10 tickets to premier + 5 DVDs + 5 digital downloads of film + 2 sets of 6 stills + 5 copies of the print version of script + Be an extra in the film
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February 2014
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