About this project

Based on a popular book series from the UK, “This Film Will Change Your Life” is bound to inspire viewers to explore their playful and adventurous sides. This film will document participants following the daily tasks instructed in the book This Book Will Change Your Life by Benrik Ltd. The manual suggests a one-year plan of daily tasks meant to promote individuality, creativity, humility, bravery, and self-exploration.

(From www.benrik.co.uk) “Benrik’s mission is to introduce a welcome element of branded anarchy into our predictable lives. Benrik’s books are thus instruction manuals for warped living. This Book Will Change Your Life is a recipe for permanent revolution in people’s imaginations, encouraging them to reinvent themselves every day of their lives. It has spawned a worldwide cult and is now in its sixth year.”

The idea of this film is to follow a handful of participants willing to follow the book’s agenda from page 1. Individuals will be asked to follow each daily task in the book regardless of its instruction. As time continues, infallibly participants will begin to notice changes in their lives, whether spawned from rearranging schedules to fit the needs of each task or by discovering an unknown inner creativity, bravery, or vulnerability.

We will be creating a short film before pursuing the feature length documentary. The short will consist of a number of interviews and footage from "Benrikians" all around the world. We also intend to shoot a participant new to the diary that will perform the daily tasks on camera.

We are looking for funding to help us travel across the country (and the world!) to document some of the most inspiring and engaging people that are involved in the creation of the phenomenon and are engulfed in the book's directions. We are also in need of equipment (namely multiple cameras to ship to the participants), extra book copies, and help setting up our business accounts.

The Kickstarter goal will hopefully be enough to keep our project rolling, as we have some amazing responses that we want to follow up on but don't have the means. It may only be enough to fund the short, but with that, we can pitch the idea more clearly for further investments. Our production goal is to create a feature-length documentary that we will submit to the festival circuit, pitch as a reality TV show, nominate for several Oscars, remake as an animated movie starring the voice talents of Tim Allen and John Goodman, and sell to the Jamaican government in exchange for a fancy new set of steel drums. (Goals are subject to change.)

For more information, please visit our links:

www.thisfilmwillchangeyourlife.com
www.dorsalfilms.com
www.myspace.com/changelifedoc
www.twitter.com/changelifedoc
www.facebook.com/changelifedoc

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