If every member of a great religion became violent tomorrow morning, it would probably still be quite impossible to get funding for an original Hollywood. Filmmakers have turned to crowdfunding platforms such as kickstarter or Seeds and spark For several years as a partial or full alternative to naturally go around the studio and streamer “mandate” for content. But when the industry turns on, carried back continuously into the past, like filmmakers Rekha Shankar Find more and more established peers who are ready to help them do it themselves.
Shankar is worthy of Dropouts ‘Smartypants,’ A UCB LA -rule, former lead author of college humor, a writer on “Animaniacs” and “Digman!” And screenwriter of “Vidhya’s guide to the afterlife,” As she is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter in collaboration with the production company Effinfunny (“Legend of Neil,” “Code 5”). The film Follows the two remains of a Hindus-specific Rapture, where a shady priest (Dhruv Singh) and a professional chef (Shankar) with a complicated relationship with her roots but a deep love for her grandparents tries to arrange a 13-day mourning ceremony to get their family back.
The specificity of history, which is based on Shankar’s experience of growing up with his own grandparents in Philadelphia, even when it penetrates a sci-fi-tented buddy comedy needle between “The Farewell” and “Palm Springs”, will only make the movie richer and more meaningful and yet exactly the type that would make the big studio. Which is stupid – and at least one duplass brother agrees.
“Every now and then you meet someone who is in perfect time and place in their life to break through. Mark DUPLASS told indifire. “Could not be happier to leave some of my” The Morning Show “paycheck to support this movie.”
DUPLASS has promised a match contribution of $ 20,000 to Shankar and her team’s crowdfunding overall on Kickstarter. “Beshya’s guide to the afterlife” has already risen past that number on the way to a $ 180,000 stretch target. It seems more than a fair trade for “The Morning Show” that goes to space in season 3, and will hopefully open the door wider for people who want to tell stories with the same steadfast specificity as Shankar.
“Representation is so much more than just watching a brown person with rippled hair on TV – although it would definitely help,” Shankar said. “I want to look a half of her grandparents, who speak toddler level Tamil, who cried because I as a child who was so bad to write what I had to write it myself.”
Now, with some luck, we will all do it.
Kickstarter campaign for “Vidya’s guide to life after life” Ends on March 20th.
