What's Bar Star City?
A goddess, a war veteran and the captain of a spaceship meet in a bar...
We've all went to bars and met unique, quirky personalities. Chicago bars are full of them. As Chicagoans we want to capture the Sci fi/Afrofuturist nature of this scene.
What We Need:
Our production starts this summer. We're fully cast, the crew is ready. But during preproduction we realized we needed more funds to cover
1. An extra day of shooting
2. Editing and sound
3. Marketing
About the Film
What happens when seemingly ordinary people are quite extraordinary? This film follows several not so ordinary regulars of a bar that's become a home for the galactic and well-traveled.
A sci fi film with Afrofuturist themes,Bar Star City looks at love, deception, memory and alienation among a group of bar regulars who just want a place to call home.
Think the TV classic Cheers meets Funkadelic's Maggot Brain meets the Southside of Chicago.
About the Director
(That's Me!)
I'm a writer. I wrote the book Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi & Fantasy Culture as well as the sci fi book Rayla 2212. My previous films (The Engagement, Love Shorts) are romantic comedies and screened at The American Black Film Fest (The Engagement was nominated for Best Film) and the Black Harvest Film Festival among others.
My mission: I want Bar Star City to bridge the art, other worldly, the here and now and the laughably ironic in a visual explosion that splashes all over your glowing screen.
SPLASH.
Then we can spur some talk about all those in between moments marked somewhere between reality, the absurd, and the imagined.
SPLISH SPLASH
We're really excited about this project. I can't wait for you to see the entire film and meet the other characters and their tall spaced out tales. We're aiming to create an intriguing work that piques curiousity and explores new possibilities in familiar and not so familiar worlds. Thanks for the consideration.
Join the fun and take a sip.
Cheers,
Ytasha L. Womack
Writer/Director
Head Mermaid in Charge