Shawn Lealos is hard at work making the Dollar Baby film. But it won't happen without some serious support. This is a documentary I am pretty excited about. It seems a lot of attention is given to the Hollywood films we've all seen, but what about the work that hasn't really been examined yet? Lealos is ready to tell some unheard stories.
Shawn made it clear to me that it's an "all or nothing" deal. He can't operate on a partial budget, but has to raise all the money to make the film happen.
Lealos explains:
The documentary will follow three specific dollar baby filmmakers who have used Stephen King's dollar baby filmmaker deal to achieve success.
We will fly out to Los Angeles and spend a week there with a focus on covering Hollywood director Peter Sullivan (Night Surf) as he actually works on his current project. While there, we will also do individual interviews with the filmmakers in Los Angeles including Jeff Schiro, Jim Gonis, James Cox, Mikhail Tank and more.
We will go to Ohio to interview author James Renner and feature him as well. Renner held the first ever dollar baby film festival in America and helped get a number of those filmmakers together. If not for James Renner, I probably wouldn't have met all the dollar baby filmmakers I did. He now works as a novelist.
We will go to Louisville to interview Warren Ray, a dollar baby filmmaker who adapted The Man Who Loves Flowers and is presently acting in another director's dollar baby film, The Death Room.
These three men's stories will be showcased with interviews from many other dollar baby filmmakers creating the inspiring stories that resulted thanks to Stephen King's generosity.Lealos lists interviews he hopes to complete:
- Jeff Schiro, The Boogeyman
- James Cox, Grey Matter
- James Renner, All That You Love Will be Carried Away
- Jay Holben, Paranoid
- Jim Gonis, The Lawnmower Man
- Peter Sullivan, Night Surf
- Rodney Altman, Umney’s Last Case
- Warren Ray, Maxwell Edision (based on The Man Who Loved Flowers)
- Mikhail Tank, Willa, My Pretty Pony (with a third on the way)
- Doveed Linder, Strawberry Spring
Check out more at: www.kickstarter.com
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