2 August 2008
Working on my feature film
Posted by admin under: Filmmaking .
As some of you are aware, I recently finished cutting a second feature, “Salud.” More details will follow, when the film starts making the festival rounds.
In the last three months, I have been looking for some new projects and working on my own film. The script is almost at the point where I’m ready to shoot it. The majority of the new posts will focus on the process and progress of making my first feature film.
I’m hopping my trials and tribulations will help, inspire and give you the tools to do your own feature. In the mean time, here’s a blurb on the film and it’s theme:
A group of people get captured in their homes and offices and are taken to a make shift prison. They are soon uncovered as detainees in the “War of Terror.” As the interrogations and abuse continue, the body counts start to mount.. One of the guards tries to expose the injustice.
The film’s focus is on the dynamics of being confined in small pace. Closed off from the influences of the outside world and how this isolation effects the people with and without power. It’s the Stanford Prison Experiment meets the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal. The film is a “what if” scenario based on true events.
This will be an ultra low budget, in SAG terms, it’s a film under $200,000. In the next few posts, I’ll cover how I broke down the script and creating the budget.
