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Red Rain 紅雨

Set in Hong Kong — a paranoid taxi driver navigates a surreal and violent nightmare.

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Red Rain 紅雨

Red Rain 紅雨

Red Rain 紅雨

Red Rain 紅雨

Red Rain 紅雨

Set in Hong Kong — a paranoid taxi driver navigates a surreal and violent nightmare.

Set in Hong Kong — a paranoid taxi driver navigates a surreal and violent nightmare.

Set in Hong Kong — a paranoid taxi driver navigates a surreal and violent nightmare.

Set in Hong Kong — a paranoid taxi driver navigates a surreal and violent nightmare.

Amarik Khosa
Amarik Khosa
Amarik Khosa
Amarik Khosa
1 Campaign |
Kowloon, Hong Kong
$4,857 USD $4,857 USD 55 backers
32% of $14,768 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

A taxi driver caught up in the past is haunted by his alter ego and commits a murder in hopes of protecting his home. Inspired by the likes of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982), Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971), and Wong Kar-Wai's Chungking Express (1994).

Red Rain is a short film that has been in development over the last 2 years. It takes inspiration from classics of global cinema and uses a multicultural fusion of genres to engage in social commentary. Taking inspiration from John Woo's style of heroic bloodshed and re-interpreting it in a sci-fi thriller and surrealist narrative, Red Rain engages in a critical discussion regarding a city's identity through past, present, and future. 

One interesting fact about Red Rain is that the crew is made up of individuals who graduated from the same international school from various year groups between 2014 and 2020. The extraordinary context brought about by COVID-19 has meant that people who are pursuing their education and careers in different corners of the world now have the rare opportunity of being in the same city at the same time. The diverse wealth of talent gathered at this unique time is too good an opportunity to pass up.

This is an ambitious project which will be shot on 35mm film. In this digital era, why 35mm? At its core, this film is about time and memory, and using the traditional time-honored format of film negative highlights the tenuous relationship between looking to the past and into the future. We want to capture the beautiful neon nightscape of an anonymous city with the rich texture of colour negative film. At the same time, we pay homage to the sense of nostalgia evoked by the disappearing medium.

We are incredibly excited about the prospect of delivering an aesthetically pleasing end product. To achieve this goal, we need to be realistic about the many costs associated with shooting on film. We need to order approximately 4,000ft of film stock from Kodak (obtained at subsidised rates through Kodak's Educational Allowance Programme), and will need sufficient funds to scan the film from celluloid to 4K digital. 

All of your generous contributions will go towards rental expenses for professional industry standard film equipment (camera, lenses, lights, stabilisation, sound gear), hiring talented actors to portray our unique characters, rental costs for set pieces including a taxi, as well as transportation expenses for cast and crew to move between filming locations.

We hope to bring this project to life with your generous contributions.  Depending on the level of your donation, you will receive a variety of exclusive rewards (kindly see the 'Perks' section at the top of this post if you are on your phone, or to the right if you are on your laptop!). We are thankful for your support, and are all very eager to share our story of a taxi driver navigating a Kubrickian, nightmarish world. 



This project aims to engage socially relevant themes and ideas. We hope to present a compelling narrative and underscore the aesthetic beauty of the urban cityscape on 35mm film. Our crew are young filmmakers hungry for opportunities to work, experiment, and contribute to the rich cinematic history in Hong Kong. This is especially important in an era when the entire world is undergoing rapid changes in identity, infrastructure, and culture. We hope to share a story that resonates deeply within us all. Red Rain, simply put, is a story of longing for a place we can call home.

We hope you can be a part of our journey and kindly invite you to contribute!

The biggest risk of this project is the choice to shoot on 35mm as opposed to digital. However, we have a 16-person dedicated crew of talented filmmakers from strong filmmaking backgrounds - many of whom have studied at elite art schools such as NYU Tisch and are working full-time in the film industry. We are confident in our abilities to execute this vision and deliver a strong end product. This film will be submitted to a vast array of global film festival circuits, in hopes of being screened alongside other compelling films from all over the world.

As independent filmmakers, another one of our biggest challenges is sourcing funding outside of the traditional studio system. Because short films are not easily marketable and have limited revenue streams, many studios may not back the project given its limited financial Return-on-Investment potential. However, we strongly believe that this project is artistically and culturally significant as a portrait of time, memory, and change in a city as well as its people. We are reaching out to you all in hopes of helping us acquire the resources necessary to turn this project into a reality. It is our guarantee that every dollar you contribute will be used as impactfully and efficiently as possible. We are incredibly grateful for your generous support in helping make this project come to life!

If you aren't able to donate, we kindly ask you to share this campaign on your social media feeds. Please feel free to reach out to us for any inquiries or offers at redrain2044@gmail.com

We will begin production by end-June and will are aiming to finish post-production by mid-August.

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Donor Credits

Currency Conversion $39 USD $64 USD (40% off)
$300 HKD
Your name will be featured in an exclusive section of our film's end credit sequence as a donor! If you would not like your name to be listed, you can still donate and choose the 'Anonymous' option.
Included Items
  • Donor Credits
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August 2020
16 claimed

Director's Commentary

Currency Conversion $64 USD
$500 HKD
Get a private copy of the film with a special soundtrack featuring director's commentary and a critical discussion of the film with scene-by-scene breakdowns/analyses!
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  • Donor Credits
  • Director's Commentary
Estimated Shipping
September 2020
14 claimed

Signed + Annotated Script

Currency Conversion $96 USD
$750 HKD
You will receive a scanned PDF copy of the film's script with notes from cast & crew members of your choosing (options: Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Sound Designer, Art Director, Lead Actor)
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  • Donor Credits
  • Signed + Annotated Script
  • Signed + Annotated Script
Estimated Shipping
August 2020
2 claimed

Special Behind-the-scenes Cut

Currency Conversion $128 USD
$1,000 HKD
For your generous contribution, you will gain early access to a digital copy of our behind-the-scenes documentary and photographs that will show the process of shooting our film on 35mm! Given the title of the project... one can expect a lot of behind-the-scenes movie making magic which will be revealed in this documentary.
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  • Donor Credits
  • BTS Documentary / Photographs
Estimated Shipping
September 2020
10 claimed

Cameo + Set Visit

Currency Conversion $642 USD
$5,000 HKD
You will be featured as a visible extra (in the foreground and in the field of focus) in our film, and will receive a crew-member pass to come on set for another day and witness our film being shot on 35mm!
Included Items
  • Donor Credits
  • BTS Documentary / Photographs
  • Signed + Annotated Script
  • Set Visit
Estimated Shipping
June 2020
2 claimed

Associate Producer

Currency Conversion $1,605 USD
$12,500 HKD
A contribution of this incredible size will qualify you to be credited as an Associate Producer (both in the credit sequence at the end of the film, as well as on IMDb) and you will gain all other perks. You will also be able to visit our set as an official crew member!
Included Items
  • Donor Credits
  • BTS Documentary / Photographs
  • Director's Commentary
  • Signed + Annotated Script
  • Associate Producer Credits
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Executive Producer

Currency Conversion $3,210 USD
$25,000 HKD
For this massive contribution you will be credited as an Executive Producer (both in the credit sequence at the end of the film, as well as on IMDb) and you will gain all other perks. You will also be able to visit our set as an official member of our crew and share some ideas / creative input!
Included Items
  • Donor Credits
  • BTS Documentary / Photographs
  • Director's Commentary
  • Executive Producer Credits
  • Signed + Annotated Script
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