Twenty One Points

Twenty One Points is a short film written by Pete Circuitt and Steve Best. The film was shot a year ago, and it's edited, but we've still got a lot of work to go on our animation and compositing, to get one of our lead characters embedded into the frame.

To be specific - 120 hours of animation, and 560 hours of compositing. We need your HELP!!

Here's a little bit of background about the project...

This is a light-hearted eccentric buddy movie between a grown man, his imaginary friend, and his Mum. The film is set over a single day in suburban New Zealand and explores what most would consider an 'unhinged mind'. It combines drama and animation and was conceived by award winning director and writer Pete Circuit.

At some point in 2013 ... exact dates are a little hazy truth be told, Head of Animation Dan Brown started building a robot, Director Pete Circuitt was writing a script. With Producer Rob Linkhorn collaborating, we took the treatment to the NZ Film Commission's Premier Shorts film funding, which caught the eye of Robin Scholes. She in turn introduced us to Andrew Adamson who gave us a huge boost in confidence about this film's potential.

Our EPs encouraged us to aim high, and the two key factors we needed to nail before shooting could commence was the casting and performance capture technology. So after almost three years of technical development, the result was an insanely robust Mocap system and a prolonged casting period procured an outstanding cast: Josh Thomson as Alan, Robyn Malcolm as Mum and Rohan Glynn as Gary. 

We attracted seminal figures of the NZ film industry to our project simply because all of these people found the filmmakers worthy of support. It certainly wasn't the money, because there wasn't any. Along the way, they also found key individuals such as Jared Kahi, Julia Kim and Tania Smiler and shot the film in May 2016 over four days.

So since it began back in 2013 ... what's taken so long?

In the proverbial nutshell, the film has a CGI character called Gary who is a robot and we needed to develop the mocap technology required to execute that character. Such sophisticated CGI is challenging on any level of independent budgeting, and to date we've soaked those costs up ourselves. And those costs have been significant.

We are not grumbling about it, we know we have something special coming. But we've got to a point where the momentum of the film is at a critical stage and we need to complete it by July 2017 or miss the key New Zealand festivals.

No point making a great little New Zealand film and not get it out there in the best possible places right? All funds raised on Boosted will go towards paying for the skilled animators and compositors to get robot Gary into the live action plates we shot in May 2016. We've set our goal at $15,000, but we really need $30,000 to cover all that post production time, and we really need your help!

To donate you need to register with Boosted, but this is so they can issue a receipt for your donation. All donations via Boosted are 33% tax deductable. Any extra money raised beyond the target will be spent on film festival entry fees to help get the film seen as widely as possible and represent New Zealand filmmaking New Zealandly.

Thanks for your support!

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