The Return to PsychoPath
For years, ever since we shot the first part of PsychoPath in 2005 people have asked me, “When is the film going to be done?” Or the variation on that, which is usually accompanied with a doubtful smirk, “When are you going to finish that film?” Those that ask these questions generally haven’t worked in the documentary field. As most fans of the genre know, a film can take years to shoot, sometimes years to even find a story. Think of Harlan County U.S.A.. When the filmmakers went to shoot, the entire project was about an election in the miners union. As murders and other events started to happen, it became a film about the entire Harlan County wars. No one could predict that, and if a finish date was forced, we wouldn’t have this wonderful piece of documentary cinema today. Bottom line, it wouldn’t have been the same film. That’s where we are with Psychopath.
As much as I tried to push a finish to the film, I made no progress. It wasn’t because I couldn’t tell a story or complete something, I’d completed many projects before. It was because the story itself wasn’t complete. With the help of my friends at AboutFace Media, some maturity, and the advice of many other helpful film mentors along the way, we are headed back into those dark Oklahoma woods this fall. If you know the film, you’ll know the original footage I directed and shot myself. It was freeing coming out of the reality TV world to take a camera and run through the woods. As I’ve developed over the years, I’ve learned that it wasn’t just the camera work that kept me working as a filmmaker. I have an ability to talk to people, and to get them to talk to me. So this time around I’ll be taking a cinematographer with me, my good friend Rod Hassler. By doing this, I’ll be able to engage with people on a one on one basis, bringing a personal trust to the subjects the film that didn’t have before.
5 years have passed in our story, and I am ready to finish my film. What I am asking of you is maybe you could spare a few dollars to help us fund the project. It’s hard to compete with all the Public Radio fund drives and political campaigns begging for support at the moment, I know, but think of this as an investment in the arts. Without storytelling, we have no history. I’ve set up a Kickstarter page HERE. page for contributions HERE. Kickstarter is a fund raising site for creative projects. You set a dollar goal and a date. If you make the goal by the date, then they give me the money for our project. If we don’t make it, all contributions go back to you and you aren’t charged.
48 GO GREEN
The Ultimate International Eco Film Fest
The Film competition To Save The Planet!
48 Go Green is a 48-hour short film festival with a difference. With the power to inspire and to change the world, 48 Go Green was born out of the creativity of the world’s filmmakers, the passion of its story-tellers and the immediate need to save our environment.
Anyone, anywhere on earth can enter and be a part of one of the biggest global film festivals of 2011. All you need is a camera, a can-do attitude and a spark of creativity and you could find yourself attending the prestigious screening of your VERY OWN film at Cannes Short Film Corner and the NAB Show in Las Vegas!
48 Go Green is brought to you by executive producer Francesco Vitali & producer Christos Siametis in association with the founders of the 48 Hour Film Project, Mark Ruppert and Liz Langston. The 48 Go Green has joined forces with the original 48 Hour Film Project to bring a unique and inspirational opportunity to ecologically-minded film enthusiasts around the globe. Inspired by our planet’s natural beauty and the creativity and passion of filmmakers around the world what better way to explore the environmental challenges we face than to channel that adrenaline, enthusiasm and intense creativity into powerful and thought-provoking short films?
48 GO GREEN OFFERS PARTICIPANTS THE ULTIMATE PRIZE OF ALL – PROJECTING YOUR MESSAGE TO HELP SAVE OUR ENVIRONMENT.
Also at stake is a total of $15,000 of prize money to the winning filmmakers who will have their films screened at Cannes International Film Festival in the prestigious Short Film Corner and at the Las Vegas NAB show from April 9th – 14th 2011.
First place offers a cash prize of $5,000 with $2,000 going to the runner up and $1,000 for third place filmmakers.
The top 16 films will be prestigiously screened at the Las Vegas NAB show.
This year there will be no committee of judges. Instead the public will vote on their favourite film in the competition.
Message from Executive Producer Francesco Vitali:
“We want your film to be loved by the people who love films, by people like you who know how to pick up a camera, by colleagues who themselves write scripts, or who themselves have collaborated in any way on the completion of a film, or at very least by people who are fans of films in general. The public has emotions and the instinct as it has the responsibility of its opinion.”
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