Kickstarter

The Great Gastromancer will be a short narrative about Charlie Grumbles, an amateur ventriloquist with an innocent heart. His genuine pursuit to make people laugh ultimately leads him to dark places, where this same innocence seems to bring out the malicious talent of peering through time. In these experiences Charlie finds that not only do beauty and generosity hold divine qualities, but on the contrary, so does the overwhelming power of hate and destruction.

There are many themes visited in the current script. Old America and new America, hate, love, atheism and animism, demons or autonomous complexes. I've been practicing ventriloquism for the Charlie role. Alan Semok, the famed Dummy Doctor, who has worked on such films as Dummy and Cradle Will Rock is possibly supplying a vintage figure. Also Matthewdavid has agreed to lend his musical talents.

Anyway, it will be a strange, hopefully funny short. I plan to shoot on the Canon T2i, and maybe iphones. The majority of the funds raised will go to  actors, equipment, music, and props.

There are other prospects I cannot disclose just yet but more updates as things develop!