NOW IT’S TIME TO STRETCH – STRETCH GOAL: $25,000
Thank you everyone for your gracious donations. We are now seeking completion funding, and with "In Demand" we can continue raising funds right here with IGG.
OFFICIAL RELEASE OF
OUR TRAILER!
We are excited to share with you a First Look at Hanneli and
Anne.
Thanks to you IndieGoGo supporters, we were able to raise
enough funds last fall to take our script into production. We couldn’t have done it without you on our team.
Despite a limited budget, we hired a large cast and crew to
re-create select moments from the lives of Hanneli Goslar and Anne Frank. Many volunteered time, materials, locations and equipment or donated their skills at discounted rate to help us meet our first goals.
Our Art Department spent many hours to create the double
fences of Bergen Belsen, barracks, 1940s sets, hair and wardrobe. We are so thankful to those who worked
so diligently on the development, prep and shooting of the film.
Our full gratitude to all who helped us! Please see the full credits at IMDB.
MOVING IN TO STUDIO EDITING:
Next step: Complete Post-Production
It’s time to refine our edit into a high quality finished
product. This step requires the
most hours to prepare the film for release. To accomplish this, we must meet
our budget goals for the following:
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Final Edit
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Sound Design and ADR
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Originally Composed Score
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Studio Time for Musicians
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Audio Mastering
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Color Grading
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Copyright
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Errors and Omissions
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Publicity and Promotion
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Festival Entry Fees
With a high quality finished product, we will promote this
film to secure wider distribution internationally on DVD, PBS, in School Curricula, Holocaust Historical Societies and
Museums that can carry forward
this story of courage, friendship and humanity that is just as relevant today
as ever.
We invite you to join our team in bringing this story to
the world.
Our goal is to honor these two young women who defied all the hate and intolerance with their courage and messages of hope that we want to share with people worldwide through film festivals, television, schools and museums. We appreciate your help in making that a possibility.
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Camrey Bagley Fox as Hanneli Goslar
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Avery Pizzuto as Anne Frank, Nicola Posener as Margot Frank
OUR ORIGINAL PITCH STORY FOR PRODUCTION FUNDS
This is Hanneli's story of courage
and loyalty which shows that, in spite of everything, we can keep our
humanity and love towards others.
Best friends since kindergarten, Hanneli
and
Anne grew up in Amsterdam. When Nazis invaded in 1940, Hanneli and Anne had no
idea how their
lives would change forever. By the summer of 1942, Anne and her family secretly went into
hiding and the best friends were abruptly parted.
In June of 1943, Hanneli and her surviving family were sent to a camp in Westerbork, in Northeastern Holland,
where they were prisoners until transported in February 1944 to Bergen Belsen,
Alballalager, a 'privileged camp' for those Jews who had passports and could be traded for German prisoners.
In
November of 1944, thousands of new inmates arrived at Bergen-Belsen.
Alballalager was divided down the middle by barbed wire covered with
straw to keep the camp separated, thus hiding the condition of those suffering on the more severe side of camp. The penalty for talking to prisoners
on the other side was death.
In February, 1945, Hanneli found out that her dear friend, Anne, was on the
other side of the fence,
and not safe in Switzerland as she had previously thought.
When darkness falls, Hanneli approached the high fence for the first time, and by a miracle, she is able to make
contact with Anne.
Even though they could not see each other, they risked their lives to meet at the fence three times.
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Photo of Bergen Belsen Camp 1945 courtesy of George Stein and The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Tragically, Anne Frank and her sister Margot, died just weeks before Germany surrendered in 1945.
Hanneli and her sister Gabi survived the horrors of
Bergen Belsen, and eventually, with the help of Anne's father, Otto Frank,
emigrated to Jerusalem in 1947 where she still lives today.
OUR INTERVIEW WITH HANNAH
In
February of 2015, exactly 70 years from the time that Hannah was
liberated, she granted us an
interview at her
apartment in Jerusalem.
We extend a special thanks to Steve
Linde, Editor in Chief of the Jerusalem Post, and Eli Mandelbaum, Journalist and Photographer at YNET, who were instrumental
in securing the interview with Hannah in Israel.
Hannah's message is of love and tolerance for all people, no matter race, creed or religion.
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THE WORDS OF ANNE FRANK
We have secured permission from the Anne Frank Fonds
(Foundation) in Basel Switzerland to use text from the famous diary of
Anne Frank.
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”
―
Anne Frank,
The Diary of a Young Girl
