A short film produced as a final project for the Sound and Image Bachelor's degree at the Portuguese Catholic University in Porto.
Sinopsys: “Afonso owns a videoclub where he rents part of his movie collection. When calling to clients who have yet to deliver their rents, he calls Maria, a woman living in 1941 whose husband is missing. Maria wants to find her husband and Afonso wants to believe that Maria's story is, or rather, was real.”
We need support to pay our actors and hired team members, as well as catering, travel expenses and of course applications for film festivals all around the world. In exchange for your support we can offer our investors not only the movie in digital form but also an honorable mention in our final credits. Besides being shown at our University's short films festival “Greatest Hits 2017” on the 13th and 14th of June, we still mean for it to be present at several film festivals nationally and internationally, approching a wider audience.
The team has fifteen people and the project will be filmed in Porto and Crestuma, Gondomar. We are still in pre-production but we will keep the campaign updated once we have the first trailer.
As of right now we have been able to obtain advertising support from Canal Superior and Metro do Porto. We are very commited to making this project something serious and impactfull for our future, so all the support you can give us, even if little, will be a great help to us. If in doubt, we can send you a document proving that this is an academic work for the Portuguese Catholic University of Porto.
About the author
Bruna Pias Was born in Porto on the 9th of october, 1996. She has been working with video editing and screenwriting since she was 13 years old. She entered the bachlers degree in Sound and Image at the Portuguese Catholic University in Porto in 2014. She was an assistant director, producer and assistant editor in the short film "Voyager" (2016) and is also the editor to some works done by collegues at the university. This is her first short film as a director, but the second she's worked on. She has worked in video in several occasions and has her own youtube channel where she shares opinions about film among other things.
Maria Beatriz Vigário Alves de Castro (Vila Nova de Gaia, 1996) studies Sound and Image at the Portuguese Catholic University since 2014. She studied at Escola Secundária Artística de Soares dos Reis between 2011 and 2014, where she specialized in Comunication and Audiovisual having participated in several projects like “Man With Comb" from João Almeida, "O Mesmo" from Rui Fonseca, "FILIA" from Rita Leal, "LARIAT" from Artem Bondarenko, "Barren" from Mariana Janeiro, "Aquário" from Matilde Ribau and "Águas-mãe" from Elisa Azevedo, having done several contributions like first assistent director and producer. She works with the simulator “The Sims” as an animator, director, screenwriter, producer and editor since 2014 having done projects such as “Dama de Inverno” (2014), “Red Eyes” (2015), “Parallel Worlds” (2015), “Lia” (2015) e “Unravel (2016), having paticipated in some online events such as Electronic Arts, Sims Motion and Simatography. She was involved as a producer in the project “Voyager”(2016) and "Dear Lawrence" is her next big project.
Budget and due dates
We are looking for 1.000 euros to be able to support the expenses above mentiones.
We are opened to getting funds until the end of february so that we can be able to take care of all we need to pay in time.
From 100 € the values are meant for companies and businesses who want to promote their product through our movie.
All the supporters will have access to a password which will allow them to watch "Dear Lawrence" protected by a transparent logo.
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