About this project
What’s this all this about?
Help us frame the beauty of the strange! We’ve almost finished the movie, but we need a little more money for some new animation, to bring the actors back in for a couple more scenes and go back to Skywalker Sound for the final mix! We're offering some very exclusive perks to you all and hope you will join us on this journey.
When will the film be
released?
Still to be determined. Animation takes a
lot of time and we still want to get at least a short run in the theaters, but
you will see it in 2012!
If I donate, when do I get my stuff?
T-shirts, hats and other course our thanks will come within the first
two of months after our goal is reached. Artbooks, prints, posters will come
the month the film is completed. Soundtrack will come at the time of our
theatrical run and the DVDs will come soon after that. Watch the FaceBook fan
page to vote on T-shirt, poster, baseball caps and other reward designs!
Can I increase my pledge once it’s been made?
After you donate to our campaign, you might want to change your perk to a different one, or increase your pledge amount. To do so, go to Kickstarter and sign in. If you go to our campaign page, the green “Back This Project” button has been replaced with a blue “Manage Your Donation” button. Click it and you can enter a new amount, or choose a new incentive.
What happens if the goal isn’t reached in time?
If our goal isn’t met before the deadline, no money changes hands and we continue to crawl along.
Can we exceed the goal?
That would be AWESOME! The more money we
have, the more new stuff we can put in, the better the movie will be, the wider the release, and the prettier you
will all be!
Who does the money go to?
Every penny (minus the fees for
Kickstarter’s involvement) will go directly to the movie budget - i.e. Your
money goes directly to the funding of this film. You can follow the production
on our FaceBook page
Pixar’s films cost $200 million, how can you do
an animated feature for $50,000?
We have already put in all of our cash and years in
sweat and other kinds of donations. But really since we have created this new animation
style, the concept art, the most creative part of the process, ends up right on
the screen. Usually, in animation, there are compromises that have to be made
in from the concept art to realization. Not with our style! Our wildest dreams
are right there on the screen!
WHO’S IN OUR FILM?
We have a fantastic cast!
Claudia Black ... Parker C. Boyd
Tara Strong ... Naia X.
Ron Glass ... Philo D Grenman
Cree Summer ... Reesa
Tim Curry ... Dorlan Mig
Juliet Landau ... Bitsea
Alan Tudyk ... Chat
Michael Dorn ... Guardship Commander
Claudia Christian ... Zev
George Takei ... Tamadamsa
Khary Payton ... Atem
Dawnn Lewis ... Malora
April Winchell ... Pawnbroker
Vanessa Marshall ... Chandra Childs
There are a video clips of some of our cast on our FaceBook page
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HOW ELSE YOU CAN HELP
Get strange with us!
Join and Get your friends to join our Facebook Page
http://www.facebook.com/strangeframe
Send letters and e-mails to you favorite cable channel requesting Strange Frame!
Talk about the project on blogs and discussion boards.
Ask your favorite Convention to get Strange Frame.
FAQ
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Have a question? If the info above doesn't help, you can ask the project creator directly.
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Beautifully Hard Core: Everything the Hard Core get plus a limited edition Strange Frame mousepad, a signed custom print from a frame in the movie that will be unique to only you!
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Artheads: Everything the Beautifully Hard Core get plus a limited edition Artbook from the movie, and a personal phone call from the Director.
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Artheads to the Max: Everything the Artheads get, plus the Artbook will be signed by the whole animation crew, Credit on the movie in Special Thanks. Invites for you and a friend to Crew Party, Hilo, Hawaii Premiere (airfare not included) An invitation to pre-screening at Skywalker Ranch and and a personal phone call from the Director.
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Associate Producer Big Bonuses: Credit as such on the movie. Invites for you and a friend to Crew Party, Hilo, Hawaii Premier ALL EXPENSES PAID. Personal tour around the island by the film's Director. Animated character will be put in one or more of shots in the movie based on a photo of you! Invitation to sit (quietly) in on the voice recording of one of the stars in Los Angeles and come to one day at Skywalker Ranch to sit in on the mix and an invite to the screening there. Everything listed above and a huge amount of Aloha.
Project By
Connected as GB Hajim (658 friends)
A video a friend did about me:
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After I finished grad school, I moved with my young family to the Big Island of Hawai‘i, not to search for paradise but to find community. Island culture is beyond karmic: What goes around really does come around…and quickly. I set myself to the task of learning Hawaiian. During that time I spent countless hours doing video work on the active volcano, crossing active flows with the U.S. Geological Survey and burning a few pair of boots along the way.
Within a few years, my small company became the largest producer of Hawaiian language content and a vital part of one of the fastest growing languages in the world; a language that was all but extinct in the early 1980s.
These educational videos allowed me to hone a unique style of cutout animation – a style that is both artful, taking advantage of my addiction to drawing, and economical, a prerequisite when you live in one of the most economically challenged areas in the country. I stuck with this style because it wasn’t one that was easily outsourced. I believe that the animation resonates with the hand of each artist as it did with the pre-digital animation styles.
After a decade and a half of production, I was ready to move away from client-based work and do a feature film. I contacted my close college friend Shelley Doty, an accomplished touring musician and lauded guitarist. If Jimi Hendrix and Sade had a one-night stand, their love child would be Shelley Doty.
Shelley and I are avid sci-fi fans. Sci-fi, also called speculative fiction, is some of the most socially progressive writing that exists. We both felt that to really have a positive effect on culture and to move the discourse forward we’d need to reach outside ‘the choir.’
Sci-fi has allowed us to combine a cautionary backstory about what could happen if everyone had to evacuate from a toxic earth. The cost to travel to distant moons is so extreme that it plunges people into staggering debt that amounts to debt slavery for all their descendants. We set it far into the future where race, sex and gender are no longer an issue, much like Star Trek gave the US the first broadcast of an interracial kiss back in the 1960s.
What we created was Strange Frame, a sci-fi story centered around the theme of the transformative power of love between two women. As our story begins 200 years after the Great Earth Exodus, we discover Naia, a feisty, young singer-songwriter being forced to work as a miner to pay down the crushing debt incurred by her forebears. When Naia hooks up and starts a band with Parker they have to not only make it as musicians but also fight for their freedom.
I always look at the process and its effects as well as the product. The underlying values of this process must be as true as the themes of the product. I couldn’t complain about the coal, nuclear and oil companies and not do my damnedest to get off the grid, so my house is solar powered. I couldn’t be upset about joblessness and poverty without trying to do something about it. I vowed I’d find the talent here on the Big Island, nurture it and help provide jobs as well. I went to the local high schools and the college to discuss the film project. I gave the talented and creative youth paid internships to learn digital art making and animation. These young people became my animators.
This project has been a struggle but I always remember what one of the mothers said with tears in her eyes when I gave her daughter a job: “When I was her age I could draw as well as her, but there were no opportunities here, so when I graduated I joined the military, then came back got married, had kids, and never drew again. Thank you for me and my daughter.”
The journey has been long but it has already paid off so well. 100% of my former interns have continued onto college and most all have stayed in creative fields – following their passions and dreams. Some are still working for me as full-fledged animators. Along the way we’ve garnered the help of people like Roger Waters (Pink Floyd), Gary Rizzo (Skywalker Sound), Jamie Thomason (Disney), Claudia Black (Farscape), Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Picture Show) and most recently Jeff “The Dude” Dowd.
