We're the most ever excited about our Second Annual Kickstarter Film Festival, and, in celebration, we're making the theme of this week's new project round-up "Our Favorite New Film Projects." These are the screamers, the stompers, the popcorn-in-the-dark chompers, the flicks and sci-fi fantasies, that have all ignited our fancy. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do! Now you bring the soda (lemon-lime please).
A sucker for Rod Serling's stark lighting and the extra terrestrial
odyssey's on Planet Earth, Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same is
a campy sci-fi that premiered late night at Sundance last year and
recently played Rooftop Films (host of the second annual Kickstarter
Film Fest..wink wink…nudge nudge.) The film plays into the genre
signifiers of midnight movies of yore, making it appear like a film that
you may have seen while munching a slice of pizza on the couch, while
passing in and out of consciousness, only to wake up the next day and
think, "Did i really watch a film about lesbian aliens who descend on
Earth only to tackle the lesbian dating scene of New York City?" And,
yes, that will be exactly what you watched. -- Mike M.
Gotta love a flick about three raucous dudes who turn a dysfunctional church on its head for the better. Three Blind Saints, which hails from Missouri, will pepper the big screen with in-the-biz names ready to deliver family-friendly fun. Expect your share of bottle smashing and jail sentences, but also a whole lotta peace, love, and kindness (and I quote). The fans are eating this up already, and that's the most fun part. -- Daniella J
Outer space is most definitely trending on Kickstarter. From the Sundance-premiered Codepdent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
to ISS-Notify's wildly popular space station light, the great unknown
is celebrated in campy sci-fi and sincere invention alike. With the
final mission of the space shuttle program just weeks away, it's a fine
time to reflect on explorations that forever define what it means to
dream. ORBIT(FILM), a co-presentation of Cinemad and Rooftop
Films produced by Mike Plante and Mark Elijah Rosenberg, is a
thirteen-chaptered imagination of our solar system, each short film a
poetic portrait of a different planetary player. ORBIT(FILM)
includes documentary and fiction, combing NASA footage, recreations,
animation, ancient astrology, and modern science all fused together by
fourteen outstanding independent and experimental filmmakers (including
Plante and Rosenberg divining Earth and Mars respectively). The creators
hope the "avant garde of art may inspire the avant garde of science." Clearly that inspiration works both ways. -- Elisabeth H.
In
the 1980s the Metropolitan Opera Guild created a program for schools
called "Creating an Original Opera." The Opera Kids documentary fast forwards 25
years later to a 5th grade class in New Jersey, where a chubby 10 year
old kid is sitting on his knees on his classroom's carpet, yelling that a
classmate has been treating them like peasants. These kids are at that
most awkward, precocious age -- they're gaining an awareness of
themselves but not yet able to edit themselves, all bossiness and
sensitivity -- but they've set out to make an entire opera from scratch.
They write the music, design the costumes, paint the sets, sing the
songs, and vote on who gets to do everything. It's enough to give any
self-proclaimed adult a full-blown panic attack, but somehow these 10 ten year olds manage to really work together, to test the limits of their
confidence and creativity and pull off way more with way more hilarity
than the diva-est diva ever could. -- Meaghan O.
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