Campaign Overview

We regard ourselves as a film making collective in a society which is emerging from one of the most difficult conflict situations that has been in Europe in the last thirty years. That was the subject of our first film – Spiral, which is doing the rounds in festivals in Europe at the moment.

Now we're moving on, though still influenced by our Northern Irish background.

When we started out some years ago, film making was a minority sport in Northern Ireland. But now we are part of an increasingly vibrant film making industry driven by the proven ability of local acting and production talent to produce world leading serial television such as Game of Thrones.

The Uniqueness of our Perks

In the spirit of a true collective, we are offering you - dear prospective donor! - an unprecedented level of creative involvement with our film.

There are NO campaigns that we know of INDIEGOGO that would offer the chance to get involved creatively in the project, with the potential benefit to your own creative journey that we are offering on Tigermilk.

We hope this will attract other artists. But of course, you don't have to have this level of involvement if you just want to get this film made. Everything is optional.

Story Pitch

Dennis doesn't feel right, doesn't feel right about anything really. I mean who does. But he's got a problem, at least one we know of, and the problem is taking over everything. The boy knows the cure is to leave the family house, to make the break from Mum, become something else, before the problem takes him over, wrecks him.

Maggie is a superb Mum, the craic, an extremely intelligent and fiesty lady. She's the kind of Mum you wish you had. Then again, she doesn't cook, she's lonely, haunted, possessing a wit that'd cut through skin. She's the kind of Mum that could be a monster spider, a seedy vampire, a wrecking ball.

Everyone knows the difference. Everyone knows when it's time to go. Mostly. We just don't like admitting it. And change is hard. Sometimes the hardest thing entirely. It's gonna hurt, Dennis leaving. Means Maggie is gonna face her horrible demonic worst self, and then ... be reborn.

What money is need for

If we were costing Tigermilk at full professional rates, it would cost around £12,000, which is a clear indication of how much all of us believe in this film.

Here's the breakdown for the money:

Actors - 100%

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The team

Paul Hamilton - Writer / Director

Paul's a former freelance broadcast journalist with the BBC who never let go of childhood aspirations to be a writer. He's made eight short films and been in film festivals in Ireland and the UK. He's developed animated television series, serial drama, and three feature film scripts. Safe to say his experience touches many bases in the industry. To keep afloat in the small creative world of Northern Ireland Paul became a lecturer in a vocational regional College. His students work at all stops on the spectrum, from independent to big budget features and high end serial television: from BAFTA winners to humble runners, they've all been through the mix of Staff Sergeant, Creative Motivator and Teenage Counsellor that probably characterises his 'teaching' style.

Stephen Mullan - Director of Photography

Stephen has 30 years experience as a Lighting Camera person in film and TV. He has worked for the BBC, C4, NBC, CBS, CBC, RTE as well as a host of indie production companies. He was he first non-Canadian Director of Photography to work for the National Film Board of Canada, his work on the documentary, When Hockey Came to Belfast was nominated for a Leo award. He's known for his work in shooting and directing music videos. He's currently the Director of Photography on a documentary which is slated for North American cinema release in 2018. He counts Jack Cardiff, Gordon Willis John T. Davis as his inspirations for picking up a camera.

Executive Producer - Paul McClean

Paul has been making music and arts programmes for the BBC since the late 1990s. Currently expanding BBC NI’s muiltimedia ‘Arts Hub’, with the Arts Show, Paul has also created documentaries for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 5live and BBC Televsision. Paul has won three gold PPI Radio Awards and 2 CIPR Media awards. He formulated the successful ATL TV and ATL Rockschool formats, and was the producer of the Across the Line brand (BBC Radio’s longest running music show) for over ten years. Paul also produces landmark events for BBC Northern Ireland including Van Morrison 70th birthday concert, Snow Patrol at Ward Park and several key concerts in the Ulster Hall.

Phil Roddy - Sound

Phil has been a professional sound man for twenty five years, having worked for all the major news outlets in Ireland and the UK including: BBC, RTE, Channel 4, ITV. He worked with Paul on last year's short, Spiral currently doing the rounds in festivals.

Props and Art Direction - Chris Lennon

Chris's likes to build monsters. Large, beautiful sometimes Irish mythical monsters. One day these monsters will probably rule at least one small Island. When there are no monsters needed he also fashions useful filmic props from simple base materials too. A stalwart companion and with a true fanboy turned filmmaking all rounder, Chris makes stuff like no one else.  

Production Assistant - Louis Tourneo-Moffit 

Louis is a 26 year old filmmaker based in Belfast with experience creating short films, music videos and commercial work. Louis' previous film, "Lair" was directed for a BBC Three show entitled "The Fear", the short had a successful 6 festival run in the UK, USA and Australia, winning its category at the Halloween Horror Fest and picking up a distributor along the way.

Camera Assist - Kieran Fitzsimmons

Kieran's been working hard to build up his portfolio as a studious and creative camera operator. He shot most of our short promotional film which you can see above and has worked on a number of short films and promotional pieces honing his craft.  His most recent work includes, 'May-August' and 'Lost' a short drama tackling the subject of dementia.

Mark Rainey - Editing Assist

Mark's worked on numerous short films honing his craft, as well as working with local indie production company Green Inc on two of their studio based productions.

PJ Wallace - Editing Assist

A young wizard on After Effects and learning his ply on editing, PJ is an enthusiastic young editor whose worked for local production company Speed Motion films as a shoot/editor as well as cutting numerous shorts and music videos.