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Contribute to Project Underworld!

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We still need an extra 5,000 to finish! Please help!

We still need an extra 5,000 to finish! Please help!

We still need an extra 5,000 to finish! Please help!

We still need an extra 5,000 to finish! Please help!

Vanessa Pla
Vanessa Pla
Vanessa Pla
Vanessa Pla
5 Campaigns |
Austin, United States
$27 USD 2 backers
0% of $5,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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We're just around the corner and only need a little more to get there! We've found the camera that we need for free, we've eliminated food costs by asking for food donations, but we still have some big expenses to pay! 

-We need to afford insurance and some extremely good talent!!!

We're asking for the bare minimum to get this ball rolling! Please share and donate if you can! 


What is Project Ünderworld?

Ünderworld is what happens when a group of young Austin actors and filmmakers get together to make an ultra scrappy quintessentially slacker experimental labor of love from scratch in a matter of five months.

It is a Wonder World; an attraction that employs a tight-knit group of slacker youths who give the park its unique character and mystery. Buddy, Mike's father, dies in a tragic accident and leaves the park to Mike, a post-college graduate already equipped with a sleuth of terrible habits, not limited to sleeping in past three every "morning". Mike handles his father's death poorly and spirals down a path of destruction nearly taking the park down with him. His bold ruination forces our strange intrepid ensemble to come together and save the magic theme park from otherwise imminent doom. In the process, they collectively fish Mike out of the ÜNDERWORLD. 

Despite its dark elements, it is very much a psychedelic slacker comedy with nods to beloved slacker predecessors: Dazed and Confused, Clerks, and Empire Records to name a few. The story is as much about Mike as it is about the park and its ragtag ensemble of employees.

The script is uniquely fitted to our actors. Most of our central actors have been cast, and the performers and Vanessa have altogether collaborated on the story. As the cast trickles in the script changes accordingly, providing opportunities for every actor to retrofit their scenes with a personal touch. 

Besides the principal cast, mostly Austin-centric, the film intends to mix actors with diegetic non-actors from within the park itself, keeping the atmosphere raw and genuine.

Wonder World park is a unique timepiece of an attraction. Seemingly still hidden in the 80s, people from all over the nation stop by this largely remote theme park to explore the network of dry-formed caves, the petting zoo, the San Marcos tower, the quirky gift shop, and the anti-gravity house. Buddy's house is on the property, and his pool overlooks the petting zoo. Peacocks regularly visit the facility every morning. 

Buddy has extended EXCLUSIVE ACCESS of the park to our film. We also have access to several other local locations in the San Marcos area, including a beautiful funeral home (to shoot Mike's Dad's wake). 

Join us in the Ünderworld. (Don't forget the umlaut!)



Cast (so far):

Andrew Cernosek (Mike)

James Hand (Buddy)


Andy Krauss (Ja)

 

Lorelei Linklater (Kelly)

Katie Folger (Kyrie)



Jacques Colimon (Devin)

Tanner Kalina (Nerls)

Samuel Stinson (Roo) 

Sarah Mullinx (Lola)

 Peter Smith (Lassie)

Juliet Robb (Lilith) 


Justin Jacobs (Rob)

Thomas Burke (Zimp)

Chris Catalena (COP)

 

Crew:

Director-Vanessa Pla

Caleb Kuntz. - Cinematographer 

Hannah Varneli- Camera Operator 

Producers: Carly Salter, Ryan Leman, Dylan Soule

The camera we are using- Sony A7r Mark II

What We Need & What You Get:


Cameras and Equipment

We'll be buying, renting and begging for most of the equipment, but the more money we can raise the better quality our end product will be! 

Cast and Crew

While an indie production like this is usually done purely out of the joy of making a movie, it is always nice to be able to pay our cast and crew something and helps to keep moral up! 

Food!!

Everyone loves to eat! It's what keeps us alive and ticking, and without it we just might become cave dwelling humanoid monstrosities... and nobody wants that. The money raised will help in feeding the cast and crew!


Other Ways You Can Help!!
Share this project with as many people as you can! Five to ten dollars goes a long way!!

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