Who am I?
Hello my dear guests!
My name is Tommaso Paitowsky and as you can hear from the video I'm an independent director, screenwriter, director of photography and producer and the owner of a producing company I just set up and that I'm trying to make work called HTS Films. My previous film Hide and Seek is a dramatic short project shot on film, 16mm, that right now is traveling the world looking for festivals to be accepted on.
With this campign I'm trying to raise some money to produce my next project, another short movie called One Day In Venice!
The Story
With this next movie I'm trying to portrait what's the life these days in Venice, Italy, but giving it a little touch of magic! A girl, called Futura, will receive one day a special invitation from a misterious guy who's going to offer her a guided tour around the city to show her how this city breathes, lives, even today! Well, have you ever seen '71 movie Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory? Who hasn't? That's pretty much what I'm going for!
The Needs
As we all know, even trying to cut the expenses as much as I can making a movie requires money! To be more specific this is where I need to spend the highest amounts:
- Location agreements. Especially private places since the public ones are pretty cheap around here
- Equipment rentals. Did I mention I'm an independent? I don't own any equipment so I'll have to rent the camera, tripods, lights, flags, etc... The whole "shooting kit"
- The crew. I've already found some friends willing to work for free, but I'll have to find other people to help me and anyway I'll have to move them to Venice for a little while.
- Food. that's another big deal! I'll have to provide at least some food for the actors and the crew! I don't care too much about myself, but I do really appreciate their help! I owe them.
- Press kit, distribution. After the movie will be done I'll have to submit it to festivals, build up a press kit, get some gadgets, I thought this was way cheaper with Hide and Seek, but actually it's damn expensive.
You can help! A lot!
A great way of helping me is also through social networks, you can share these campaign on your facebook page, on your google+, twitter, tumbler, linkedin, your own website! Everything is well accepted! Spread the word, help me make it!
Ways of grabbing info
As required from these new world of communication I have many pages where you can find me, my projects, my company.
First of all there is the website http://htsfilms.com, then we got Facebook for ME and for HTS Films, Google+ for ME and for HTS Films, Twitter for ME and Twitter for HTS Films and last IMDb, guess for who? No, that's just for ME (click ME or HTS Films to open the page)
