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Sundown - Film Festival Fund

Help Sundown reach it's audience at festivals around the world.

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Sundown - Film Festival Fund

Sundown - Film Festival Fund

Sundown - Film Festival Fund

Sundown - Film Festival Fund

Sundown - Film Festival Fund

Help Sundown reach it's audience at festivals around the world.

Help Sundown reach it's audience at festivals around the world.

Help Sundown reach it's audience at festivals around the world.

Help Sundown reach it's audience at festivals around the world.

RYAN HENDRICK
RYAN HENDRICK
RYAN HENDRICK
RYAN HENDRICK
4 Campaigns |
Glasgow, United Kingdom
$312 USD $312 USD 9 backers
25% of $1,218 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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Overview
Sundown is an emotional short drama set on a remote Scottish Island. It stars Doctor Who alumni Caitlin Blackwood and Frazer Hines (Emmerdale, Outlander). Sundown is the story of two people coming to terms with their own mortality as they open their eyes to the natural world around them and find perspective in their own existence. We have produced a beautiful film and now need your help to launch the film onto the world stage.

Short Summary

Sundown is a beautiful and poignant short film directed by award winning & BAFTA nominee Ryan Hendrick, produced by BAFTA winners David Brown & David Newman. We are Magic Monkey Films, our mission is to create colourful, entertaining and engaging films in Scotland for audiences both at home and abroad.

With the help of a great crew including renowned Cinematographer John Rhodes (Only Fools & Horses, Call the Midwife) we have produced a colourful and thought-provoking film that all ages can relate to.

Now we are looking to launching Sundown at film festivals across the world. Festival submissions and attendance costs are expensive and there is also stiff competition for the few slots available to films.

We have already had some success being selected for the Xpo North Festival in the Scottish Highlands and the upcoming Blue Whiskey Film Festival in Chicago, USA.

 

 

What We Need & What You Get

We are looking to raise a minimum of £1,000. This goes towards film festival submission fees and attendance costs. It's important that the filmmakers are able attend screenings in order to make connections with additional festival programmers and potential future collaborators. We are also looking to employ the services of a festival management company to help promote and bring Sundown to the attention of festival judges. This service is expensive and depending on how much we raise will determine what tier of service we are able to employ.

This is your opportunity to support this critically acclaimed short film that critics and audiences are raving about.

 
"Beautiful and poignant. A stunning short film that will leave lasting memories.”
Kate Hooper, Festival Director, Xpo North
 
"Visually, this film is perfect and the soulful and calm scoring by Stephen Wright only adds to the contemplative aura of Hendrick’s short film."
Jack Bottomley, UK Film Review / Starburst
 
"Sundown delights from start to finish."
Blazing Minds

 

The Impact

"This is a story that needs to be told. It is a journey that we all will face and how we face it defines us. We've all felt that desperate longing for simpler times; the hopeless certainty that someone  will have the answers we seek. On the surface, William is on a journey we all must travel eventually, but dig a little deeper and you realise, his is a road we're all already on." Clare Sheppard describing her approach to Sundown.

From a creative perspective this will provide an opportunity for audiences to see our stars Caitlin Blackwood and Frazer Hines portray very real and original characters, adding something completely new to their respective repertoires.

Risks & Challenges

Finding traditional funding for short films in this day and age is almost impossible. Short film is an essential medium for emerging filmmakers, it allows them to display their creative voices on screen and show they have what it takes to go further to produce commercially viable feature films. Short film also gives the opportunity to present stories and ideas far more effectively than can sometimes be achieved with feature films.

Crowd funding offers the opportunity for filmmakers and contributors to come together and create satisfying pieces of cinema that can inspire as well as entertain.

The challenge with this campaign will be to get the word out on a large scale. To overcome this, both the filmmakers and our actors have loyal followings. Frazer and Caitlin have an incredible fan base from their work on Doctor Who and we will be counting on all of our supporters and fans to help us get the word out about our film.

We are reaching out on social media and in conventional media to raise as much awareness and excitement about this film as we can. So we will be working tirelessly to raise the full amount we are requesting.

Other Ways You Can Help

If you love our project but you are unable to contribute financially, by sharing this campaign and spreading the word on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and your other social media platforms with your friends and colleagues, you are helping this campaign to reach a wider audience. Please use the indiegogo share tools. Hashtags are also very important, for this project please use the following;

#Sundown #CaitlinBlackwood #FrazerHines #indiefilm

#TeamSundown #scottishfilm #SupportIndieFilm

QUESTIONS & QUERIES

If you would like to enquire into any aspect of our project or campaign, thinking about contributing and want to know more? Then please get in contact with us using the "Ask a Question" button at the top of the page.

 

THANK YOU...

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