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The Endless Whispers - Production Development

Help us develop this amazing feature film so that we can get this project off the ground!

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The Endless Whispers - Production Development

The Endless Whispers - Production Development

The Endless Whispers - Production Development

The Endless Whispers - Production Development

The Endless Whispers - Production Development

Help us develop this amazing feature film so that we can get this project off the ground!

Help us develop this amazing feature film so that we can get this project off the ground!

Help us develop this amazing feature film so that we can get this project off the ground!

Help us develop this amazing feature film so that we can get this project off the ground!

Michael Dinetz
Michael Dinetz
Michael Dinetz
Michael Dinetz
2 Campaigns |
Los Angeles, United States
$710 USD 17 backers
4% of $17,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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An ancient, supernatural illness devastates the minds of the modern world. One reclusive ex-soldier survives in a relatively safe, hidden location until eight survivors show up followed by a rampaging horde of lunatics. Amidst the chaos, a creeping, contagious madness slowly picks off the group one-by-one and no one knows WHO is next. Paranoia and doubt spreads. Each fears the worst. Ultimately, their gradual decline of sanity evokes an onslaught emanating from within and without their safe haven. Welcome to the Endless Whispers.

The Nutshell

The Endless Whispers is a feature film with aims to shoot in 2016. Influenced by writers like HP Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Bloch, and Stephen King, as well as, filmmakers such as Stanley Kubrick, Ridley Scott, Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski and John Carpenter, the film explores the collapse of human-nature in the face of the unknown. 

Maximizing the impact on potential investors is essential to produce the feature film. It also provides an amazing, unique experience for the audience.

The Endless Whispers has an amazing website, packed full of ever-expanding information. It sets the stage for the world of the story. There are 'radio' broadcasts, CB conversations, character photographs chronicling their lives, concept images (see the gallery), an in-depth timeline that reveals where the whispers began, and eight ‘featurettes’ allow the audience to meet each major character before the world ends. This collection has been dubbed The Endless Whispers Cycle.

The Cast

The journey of bringing The Endless Whispers to the screen is a long one. To that extent we have strived to bring the best production we can including the talent we choose. We think you might recognize two of our cast members. Michael Ironside (Scanners, Top Gun, Starship Troopers, Terminator: Salvation, and so many other films) and Edward Furlong (Terminator 2, Pecker, American History X and many other films as well).

We are overjoyed to have brought these two on board, our producers have worked tireless to bring this about and we are very much looking forward to the performances these two major veterans of celluloid will bring to our production.


The Crew

Christopher Broughton, Producer  Christopher has over 30 years experience in many branches of the entertainment industry, most recently as a producing partner with Jamie Foxx and Foxx Hole Productions. He is also VP of Content Acquisition for DOX-TV The Korean Wave with its 80 million strong viewership. His credits include, but are not limited to, “Django Unchained”, “Ray”, “Coach Carter” and “The Amazing Spider-man 2”.

Jonathon Freeman-Anderson, Producer  A rising star in low budget independent film production, with credits including but not limited to: Halloween Hell, Western Religion, Wolf Mother, Goblin Queen, Comfort, The Body Tree, and upcoming scifi epic TV Series Space Diner Tales.

Michael Babbitt, Director  Michael’s directing experience covers 20 years of stage & film. With an M.F.A from Playmaker’s Repertory Company his credits include, but are not limited to, the award winning, “FACES”, “Sacrifice”, “Elimination” and “No-Good Maxine” as well as music video, commercial, and industrial credits. “To me horror is the unknown, the thing that should not be named. Lovecraft himself put it wonderfully, “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”

Michael Dinetz, Make-Up & Special Make-up Effects  Michael has a wide array of credits in US and Asian blockbusters as a Make-Up Department Head and Special Make-Up Effects Creator. His credits include, but are not limited to “FOX’s Sleepy Hollow,” “Be Sweet,” “San Antonio Undead,” and “Space Command: Redemption.”

Elle Laurel Lane, Production Designer  Film credits include, but are not limited to, “No-Good Maxine,” “Remnants,” “The Long Road,” “River Guard,” and “Pieces of Talent.” Her work has been featured in numerous publications, such as “Designer Dreamhomes”, “NC Signature”, and “At Home” magazines.

Michael Silberman, Line Producer  A veteran of over 20 years experience in independent film production, with credits including, but not limited to Runestone, Nights in Utopia, The Memory Thief, and Re-Generator.

Rex Yau, Cinematographer  Feature films include, but are not limited to, “Get Well,” “Sacred Kind of Love,” and “Rap and Rhyme.” He has also worked on commercial projects for Krispy Kreme, Food Lion, and CSX. For Mercedes Benz of America he was cinematographer in a winning selection for the C-Couple Your Week advertising campaign. He was formally trained as a Master of Architecture at Cornell University under Peter Eiseman and the late Lebbeus Wood.

Sarah Char, Visual Effects Supervisor  She has been involved with many television and film production; from talking heads, live sports, 16mm, 35mm, independent shorts, features to large studio tent pole film and episodic television on the web and cable. Her focus is visual effects and producing. Her credits include, but are not limited to, “Space Command: Redemption”, “Eureka”, “I Am Number Four” and “Fast & Furious”.

What’s Needed

The average low budget indie film is currently produced by either crowd-funding the film on an extremely limited budget, crowd-funding the film on a realistic budget, or raising funds through a private investor.

For films suffering from extremely limited budgets, the quality is at such a bare minimum that it is highly unlikely to find distribution out to the world, much less turn a profit. Extremely limited budgets often require filmmakers to compromise his/her ethics with a crew and cast who work for little to no money.  The inherent risks that accompany this method of guerilla filmmaking can go so far as to result in the film never being completed.  Most of the film crowd-funds you find fall into this category.

Attempting to crowd-fund a film for a realistic budget almost never meets its requested goal. A truly, high-quality independent film of any reasonable scope requires at least $500,000, and usually much more. Therefore, the projects either are not made, or retroactively alter themselves to accommodate what money they do raise (which always compromises the quality of the final film).

Furthermore, even if one has lucrative connections to pitch and raise funds from a private investor, it requires an expense of money for the proper materials to be created, organized, and packaged for a professional presentation.  We must be able to demonstrate, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that our project is worthy of their investment.

Solid investors need a creatively attractive project, which includes a worthwhile script, experienced team with a cohesive vision, and a thoroughly organized production package. This includes a detailed budget accounting for all expenditures necessary to complete the film, a thorough production schedule to plan, shoot, and edit everything at maximum quality, and a solid business plan for investors to adequately comprehend the return on their investment.

That is why outside help is desperately needed. Currently, the only hope to deliver quality films is to have a private investor. However, as stated, Endless Whispers requires the materials necessary to submit to these investors. The film needs help funding the various budgets and breakdowns. Great producing must have an accurate budget that reflects the actual costs of making the film. Therefore, the Endless Whispers team needs to afford for its amazing line producer to generate a truly accurate budget, shooting schedule, and script breakdown. Clearly, this process is essential, but not cheap. The team must scout locations, crew, and various other production costs. For Endless Whispers, the production is set overseas, in Hong Kong. Therefore, the production team needs to cover their costs for both the line producer to do their job, but also for the production team to travel to China for the scouting and development of these crucial project elements. 

Please help Endless Whispers move forward in its production today. Dig deep and donate anything and everything you can. One can certainly throw money at another fund offering a completed film in return, but only 10%, or less, of those crowd-funded films are actually ever finished. Endless Whispers pre-production plan must reach a much smaller financial goal. This allows greater potential to deliver a far better film than other crowd funded film campaigns.

The Endless Whispers team crunched the numbers to get them as low as possible without metaphorically shooting this project in the proverbial foot.

This crucial final stage of project development needs $17,000 to pay for round trip flights to Hong Kong for the producers and director to assess locations, production resources, and other costs on Mainland China, hotel costs for the six days in Asia, fare for transportation and meals, and funds for the line producer to generate the budgets and breakdowns, as well as a few other minor tasks and expenses associated with the final development process.

Though the internet and telecommunications provides a minimal amount of information, the most accurate research is derived on the ground, at the actual locations, and that is what makes your donations so crucial.

Please dig deep and donate. If donating is impossible, please share the campaign with friends, family, and your various social networks. Many people already believe in this film. It can be a success, but only if it is done in the right way. To rise above the quality of other low budget films, Endless Whispers needs the edge that this modest amount provides for the final stage of project development and pre-production.  Every dollar helps, but the rewards section displays some of the special incremental reward prizes offered for larger donations.

Epilogue

The Endless Whispers is an ambitious, but also very worthy, project with many people involved, spanning multiple cities and countries. These modest funds are absolutely necessary to make this project right and tell the Endless Whispers story in the way that it deserves to be told. 

Don't forget to ‘like’ or ‘follow’ Endless Whispers on Facebook and Twitter for all the latest news, gossip, and murmurs of madness! 

Risks and challenges

The greatest risk is that something terrible and unspeakable is awoken and the world ends. That could be kind of a bummer. 

That said, within the fantastical and magical world of filmmaking, issues always arise, i.e. reshoots, delays in visual effects, etc., but with your help, these issues will be kept to a minimum and if they arise, they shall be dealt with immediately and professionally.

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GRATUITOUS PRAISE

$25 USD
Be listed in the special thanks credits on our IMDB page. The Endless Whispers website, Facebook and Twitter will know your AWESOMENESS. Of course you'll have to "like" or 'follow' us so we can do that. Please?!
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NAME IN LIGHTS

$50 USD
Get a 'special thanks' listing on IMDB. Plus you get the $25 reward.
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BE A MEMBER OF THE DOOMED

$100 USD
You will have exclusive access to updates including sneak peeks at scenes, glimpses of behind the scenes activity and other great stuff. This also gives you access to all of the exclusive members material for all past short films. An array of stuff that no one but Members of the Doomed get to see. You will be given a free access to watch the final film one week before it's released. Finally, you get to claim the $25 and $50 rewards as well.
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SNAPSHOT

$250 USD
A signed still from your favorite featurette. Not only do you pick the featurette, you get to choose the exact still and you get to choose who you want to sign it! Plus you get the $25, $50 & $100 rewards.
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SPOILER SCRIPT

$500 USD
One copy, signed, of the script for the feature film The Endless Whispers. Yes, you can find out what happens to everyone before the rest of the world has even woken up. We do, however, ask you to keep this one a secret. Plus you get the $25, $50 and $100 rewards.
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WEAR YOUR DOOM

$750 USD
Get an exclusive t-shirt that only the Crew of The Endless Whispers will have. Plus you get the $25, $50 and $100 rewards.
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THE SOUND OF MOVIE MAGIC

$1,000 USD
Get a recording of a real production development meeting. This is a rare glimpse into what goes on day to day behind the scenes of getting a massive project like this rolling (Option of either CD or digital download)! Plus you get the $25, $50 and $100 rewards.
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I LOVE THE ART OF MOVIE MAGIC

$1,500 USD
Six pieces of concept art, signed by our artist, Grace Stott, for you to display anywhere you want. These are gorgeous pieces and examples can be seen at www.theEndlessWhispers.com (and in our funding video.) LIMITED AVAILABILITY! Plus you get the $25, $50 and $100 rewards.
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WALK THE LINE

$3,000 USD
Get a chance to look at what a Line Producer does. Receive a copy of the breakdowns and development documents, signed by the producers and director! This is an in-depth up-close look at the logistics and strategy that goes into making a film. LIMITED AVAILABILITY! Plus you get the $25, $50, $100 and $500 rewards.
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FLY ON THE WALL

$5,000 USD
Join us for a major pre-production strategy meeting. In can be via Skype, Teleconference or if you’re nearby you can attend personal and spend the day with the director. Plus you get the $25, $50, $100 and $500 rewards.
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A PIECE OF MOVIE MAGIC

$7,500 USD
Receives a Piece of Movie Magic from Endless Whispers’ special makeup effects designer, which potentially includes a prosthetic cast from one of the molds, an actual mold, or some other production set used item! LIMITED AVAILABILITY! Plus you get the $25, $50, $100, $500, and $750 rewards.
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ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS

$10,000 USD
Receives a Producer Credit on the project, which includes acknowledgement in all materials sent to prospective investors and behind the scenes video of location scouts in China (DVD or a digital download)!! LIMITED AVAILABILITY! Plus you get the $25, $50, $100, $250, $500 and $750 rewards. (Your IMDB credits will be for Producer not as a special thanks!)
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BY EXECUTIVE ORDER

$15,000 USD
Be credited as "Executive Producer" and a chance to accompany the producers and director to China for the initial scout (by the rules of this crowd fund site, Endless Whispers is not permitted to pay for airfare, but can cover any and all expenses not expressly prohibited)! LIMITED AVAILABILITY! Plus you get the $25, $50, $100, $250, $500, $750 and $1000 rewards. (Your IMDB credits will be for Executive Producer not as a special thanks!)
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