“And this our life, exempt from public haunt,

finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,

Sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

 – William Shakespeare

Welcome to the IndieGoGo funding site for Last House Productions’ new feature film Neptune. Enjoy our teaser for the film above.

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           As with Last House Productions' previous films, I Want You To Know and The Bully, Neptune takes an inventive, immediate approach to cinema. 

          Set on an island off the coast of Maine, Neptune is the story of an adolescent girl's dive into spiritual mania. Stirred by the sudden death and disappearance of a peer, the young girl takes to the waters as an apprentice to the boy's lobsterman father. A strange and beautiful journey, Neptune couples haunting visions with themes of loss, animism and the universal search for identity. 

          An independently produced feature film intended for theatrical release and DVD distribution, Neptune goes before the camera on location in Maine startingin the summer of 2012 and wrapping up in the summer of 2013. Neptune has a planned release date for November 2013.

          This film cannot reach a worthy fruition without the kind support of individuals like you. Our goal for this campaign is to raise almost a quarter of the total budget. Even $5 or $10 donated toward this initial production phase will be a significant contribution. With many people giving just a little bit, Neptune can be the beautiful film it has the potential to be. The monies raised will be used as start-up funds and for the first production phase scheduled June – October 2012. 

Click on the CONTRIBUTE button in the upper right to donate and support independent film. 

All donations to Last House Productions for our feature film Neptune are greatly appreciated and we Thank You for your generous contribution.

Last House Productions is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of Neptune must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. 

To show our appreciation for your generous donation, anyone who donates $25 or more to the production will receive, as a gift, a high resolution PDF page of director Derek Kimball’s beautiful storyboards. Find an example of Derek’s storyboard art on The Bully website.

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          Founded by filmmaker Derek Kimball, Last House Productions is an award-winning independent film production company based in Portland, ME. Our previous films I Want You To Know and The Bully have screened at film festivals in multiple states across the country and earned several commendations including: Jury Winner from The Milwaukee Show Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI 2008, Best of Show from Indie Fest, La Jolla, CA 2011, Golden Badger Award from Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, WI 2011, and Best Film Award from SENE Film, Music and Art Festival, Providence, RI 2011.

Last House Productions has a vested interest in creating film works with a genuine sense of realism, engaging in every aspect from performance to imagery—a fusion of narrative and documentary filmmaking styles, achieved by finding stories in nature and telling them with a raw immediacy. 

Neptune is our most personal and ambitious project to date. It is the intention of Last House Productions’ creative team to make the most engaging, unique and honest piece of moving picture possible.

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          “Many people from Maine will tell you that it’s not like other places. The sense of wonder here is connected with a state-wide hesitance to become homogenized like so much of the country has. We stay a little longer with the traditions that keep us tethered to the elemental. We regard the natural splendor of our home state with quiet awe, humbled by the sense that we border some great unknown. The vast expanses of pine and sea, to us, is where dwells the mystery of life. 

Neptune is the story of a young person who has been kept from this mystery, but when thrust out to the sea, finds a boundless wonder within herself. This is an important film and an important time for it to come to fruition as the opportunities to experience this awe dwindle.  I would like to thank any and everyone who help to make this work a reality. It is only through your support that Neptune will reach fruition.”

- DEREK KIMBALL

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          IF YOU CAN’T DONATE at this time, that’s okay! We greatly appreciate your interest. We hope you find our project to be an interesting cinematic endeavor— one you would want to see when it’s finished —and encourage you to share our Neptune campaign page with your friends through word-of-mouth, email or on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Spreading the word is paramount for the success of independent filmmakers like us.

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