About this project
SEE EPISODE 1 IN HD HERE: http://vimeo.com/3714715
SEE EPISODE 2 IN HD HERE: http://vimeo.com/4559447
SEE EPISODE 3 IN HD HERE: http://vimeo.com/5180369
Flying Kebab is an ongoing webserie made for the internet and through the internet. Fernando, a Brazilian photographer, receives a letter in Arabic mentioning an inheritance left for him in Beirut. Leaving the comfort of home, he goes for a journey through Lebanon's culture, heritage, gastronomy and people while searching for his inheritance.
We're a crew of three people spending a year here in Lebanon and making Flying Kebab happen while we stay here. By now, we already have three episodes online, with more than 20k views each. People that we meet around while shooting are helping us a lot. Moreover, many who have watched and loved Flying Kebab have contacted us through the internet in order to help out. It was through the internet that we met our current script writer and producers, who made the initial investment in audio equipment. Indeed, the internet is our only mean of distribution. We've been spreading the webseries through facebook, blogs and twitter.
Flying Kebab will comprise nine episodes, if everything goes according to our plans. We will release one episode each month till January, when we’ll finish our adventure. For each episode we need around US$300 for paying expenses in car renting, equipment renting and other minor production expenses. Therefore, we will be launching a KickStarter campaign every month, hoping to raise enough money to pay our expenses and, if some money is left over, to buy some basic equipment in order to diminish the renting prices further on.
Once Flying Kebab is finished in January we’ll release a special DVD with all the episodes, all of Fernando’s vlogs, and special features that couldn’t get into the final online episodes.
This is a very special project that we’re already head deep into it and trying to find fundings to continue. Backers will have special access to a whole serie of vlogs about the taxi drivers here in Lebanon, and depending on the level of the pledge, exclusive signed print-outs of Fernando’s pictures. You’ll also receive on copy of the final DVD once it’s released in January.
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Funding Successful
This project successfully raised its funding goal on July 9, 2009.
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A very grateful mention on the "Thank You" ending credits
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The above and a 13x18cm print of one of Fernando's Flickr photos
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Name mentioned on the ending credit and a 13x18cm print of an exclusive photo by Fernando
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All of the above plus a copy of the DVD with all episodes (released in the beggining of 2010 once all episodes are finished)
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All aforementioned goodies, plus a 20x30cm signed print-out of an exlcusive photo by Fernando Borges
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Copy of the DVD with all episodes and a exclusive large signed panomaric print-out of the whole extension of the Borj Hammoud bridge.
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Round-trip to Beirut to meet us and have dinner
Project By
Connected as Matheus Siqueira (1345 friends)
Cinema enthusiast and independent filmmaker. Always looking for new methods of story-telling. In the meantime reads and travels around the world meeting new people, if possible doing it all together. Born in the US, grew in Brazil and for the year is now living in Beirut, Lebanon.
