SECOND CHANCE / C.Magnien / Feature Film

Two parallel stories happening in Greece between 2008 & 2015, which 1st crisscross then clash each others in a brutal and unexpected climax!

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SECOND CHANCE / C.Magnien / Feature Film

<p> <u><strong>I'm about to shoot a professional feature film</strong></u>, whose shooting will start next Saturday - 31/03/2013. As you might know, cinema is an expensive art, specially when you shoot <u><strong>with professional equipmenents</strong></u>, as we will do.</p> <p>  </p> <p> The <u><strong>budget</strong></u> - developed below in this page - is <strong><u>about </u></strong><u><strong>10.000€</strong></u><strong>.</strong> I've borrowed 5.000€ at the bank - the maximum I could -, I've found 1.500€ more by shooting a ad for a hair-dressing salon, but <u><strong>we still miss about 3.500€ to be able to shoot </strong></u>this film, which relies on a <u><strong>VERY STRONG STORY </strong></u>- check out right below.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>You can help </strong></u>me to get these 3.500€ <u><strong>by supporting this project with just 5 or 10€ - or 5.000€ </strong></u>if you're rich enough...:-) -, depending of your financial capacities.</p> <p>  </p> <p> You'll get a series of nice personal gift in exchange... If we don't reach 3.500€, this website doesn't give us nothing, and your money won't be taken from your credit card.</p> <p>  </p> <p>  You'll get <strong>a series of nice personal gift in exchange</strong>... and <em><strong>even a ride back to 1991 in the </strong></em><em><strong>Renault Nevada</strong> </em><em><strong>Time-Machine </strong></em>if you're generous enough!</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Grece-violence-manifestation-austerite-503091-jpg_343875" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15563/grece-violence-manifestation-austerite-503091-jpg_343875.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>THE STORY</strong>:</p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>*</strong> <strong>2008-2012</strong> : The story of Alexandre, a French guy whose crazy love for his Greek girlfriend Iphigenia takes him 4 years back in time as he's travelling by night on a Greek highway.</p> <p> Even if he doesn't understand how this happened and what the price to pay for it, this modern Orpheus decides to enjoy this "Second Chance" to fix all the mistakes he had done during his "first life" in Greece and get his girlfriend back.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>*</strong> <strong>2015</strong> : In his bathtube, Philippe, another French guy, tells the story of Alexandre to Ariane, his own Greek-girlfriend... ...until these two stories, taking place in two different times, eventually collide in a fully unexpected double brutal climax!</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Sem12fevd-z10-manifestation-grece-copie-1" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15163/sem12fevd-Z10-manifestation-Grece-copie-1.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>2008-2012 : A fundamental moment in Greece History, and more generally in the History of Western civilizations – the state debts issue, the economic crisis, the breaking-up of European solidarity, the slow separation of the E.U. into two antagonistic blocks, the Southern "bad pupils" and the Northern "good students".</strong></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Grece-manifestation-austerite" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15166/grece-manifestation-austerite.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>MY INTENTIONS</strong>:</p> <p> Greece is not the "lazy" country described in most the European media...<u><strong> I used to live in Greece for more than 6 years, so I know what I'm talking about.</strong></u></p> <p>  </p> <p> It is<u><strong> a much more complex country, full of beauties AND</strong></u>, indeed, <u><strong>of negative aspects</strong></u>. And a quite corrupted country as well, I admit. But this doesn't concern ALL the Greeks... only specific categories. So<strong> I found this generalisation really unfair</strong>, even more thinking that the <strong>Greeks are by far the most generous people I've ever met </strong>during my (many) travels through the world.</p> <p>  </p> <p> And one thing is sure: <strong>the roots of the crisis are much beyond the </strong>simple <strong>responsability of the Greek people</strong>, and the humiliating way many European leaders, Angela Merket first, treated the Greek people is also really unfair, as this people is now in deep pain.</p> <p>  </p> <p> That's why <u><strong>I've decided to write and shoot a movie which is meant to present the reality of the Greek society</strong></u>.</p> <p>  </p> <p> Through the story of a French guy fighting to get his Greek girlfriend back, I wish <strong>to present the good as the bad sides of the actual life in Greece</strong>, in order to show that the stereotypes conveyed by most of the European political leaders are far from the truth.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="1772127_3_4b84_manifestation-devant-le-parlement-a-athenes-le_5995d8fefa3b77fbb85e3563846af978" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15164/1772127_3_4b84_manifestation-devant-le-parlement-a-athenes-le_5995d8fefa3b77fbb85e3563846af978.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>Through the fictional story of Alexandre</strong></u>, a picaresque character who is sent back 4 years back in time in Greece - from 2012 to 2008 - and who tries desperately to prevent for the second time the breaking-up of his couple with the Greek girl he loves, one can discover <u><strong>the tragic and violent breaking-up of a whole country, Greece</strong></u>, a country whose people are suffering and where <u><strong>the temptation of a dangerous far-right nationalist and isolationist withdrawal </strong></u>has never been that strong.</p> <p>  </p> <p> A danger eventually embodied by the last part of the film, which takes place in 2015 after a "military coup" and the fallback of Greece into dictatorship.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Md0.libe.com" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15169/md0.libe.com.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> As Alexandre will discover: <u><strong>one can never escape one’s destiny... except if you’re ready to pay the price!</strong></u></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>THE THEMES</strong></u>:</p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>Second Chance <em>is a free adaptation of the myth of Orpheus, one of the most important one in the Greek Mythology.</em></strong></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Eurydiceorpheusrussell2" height="407" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15176/EurydiceOrpheusRussell2.jpg" width="453"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <em>It is in fact a double adaptation, because both main male characters go down to Hell, each one in his own way, to retrieve the woman they love.</em></p> <p>  </p> <p> <em>And after getting their beloved ones back, each of our two heroes has to face the same temptation on his return way to the World of the Livings: the temptation not to respect the only rule he has to follow in exchange for this "second chance": to renew a successful relationship with his girlfriend.</em></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Orpheus_eurydice" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15177/orpheus_eurydice.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <em>Each of our heroes will have a different way to deal with that temptation, a situation  which brings the movie to a double climax.</em></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>STRUCTURE</strong></u>:</p> <p>  </p> <p> <em>Consequently, this film develops through </em><strong><em><u>TWO PARALLEL STORIES</u></em></strong><em>, both </em><strong><em><u>TAKING PLACE IN GREECE</u></em></strong><em> at </em><strong><em><u>TWO DIFFERENT MOMENTS</u></em></strong><em>, told </em><strong><em><u>IN 3 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES </u></em></strong><em>(French, Greek and English, the 3 languages used by the main character, Alex, to communicate with the people around him in Greece).</em></p> <p>  </p> <p> ● <strong><em><u>2008-2012</u></em></strong><em>: Alexandre, a young French man who has traveled 4 years back in time, from 2012 to 2008, decides to use this "second chance" to settle his life in Greece and get his Greek girlfriend Iphigenia back to him.</em></p> <p>  </p> <p> <em>Alexandre is a picaresque character who perfectly knows, deep inside himself, that an upcoming disaster is in store for him right round the corner if he changes his destiny too much... but he does so anyway!</em></p> <p>  </p> <p> ● <strong><em><u>2015</u></em></strong><em>: Philippe, another French man who has created Alexandre's fictional story, feels - like his character - that a disaster stands in his way...</em></p> <p>  </p> <p> <em>But unlike Alexandre - his fictional "alter-ego" -, rather than continuing his race forward until he reaches the gap, Philippe tries to open the eyes of his own Greek girlfriend, Ariane, in order to prevent the upcoming disaster to happen.</em></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong><u>DETAILED SYNOPSIS</u></strong></p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong><u>April 2015</u></strong><strong>.</strong> <strong><em>Greece</em></strong><strong><em>, Halkidiki.</em></strong> A bathroom.</p> <p>  </p> <p> Comfortably seated in his bathtub, <strong><u>Philippe tells his Greek girlfriend Ariane the main lines of</u></strong> the scenario he's about to sell in France : <strong><u>the story of Alexandre</u></strong>, a young French man on the road to spend his holidays in Greece... a country he knows well, because Alex lived there two years before coming back to France.</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong><u>July 2012</u></strong><strong>. </strong><em><strong>Greece, the highway between Igoumenitsa and Thessalonica</strong></em><strong>.</strong></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Fall_viaduct_bis" height="236" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15186/fall_viaduct_bis.jpg" width="437"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong><u>While driving</u></strong> at night <strong><u>on the highway</u></strong> on his way to Thessalonica, <strong><u>Alexandre narrowly escapes falling from the top an unfinished giant bridge</u></strong> over a valley... <strong><u>a bridge which was yet supposed to have been completed</u></strong> several months before!</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="H16-16_bis" height="208" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15187/H16-16_bis.jpg" width="329"></p> <p>  </p> <p> When Alex eventually reaches Thessalonica in the early morning via an alternative mountain road, he progressively discovers why the bridge wasn't completed yet: for some unknown reason,<strong> <u>his holidays in Greece have turned into a 4-year journey... back in time!</u></strong>... although he had left France in July 2012, he arrived in Thessalonica in September 2008!</p> <p>  </p> <p> The final "time destination" of his time travel isn't a random one: he arrived the very same day when <strong><u>he arrived in Greece 4 years earlier to rejoin his girlfriend Iphigenia</u></strong> in Thessalonica and settle there with her, <strong><u>on </u></strong><strong><u>September </u></strong><strong><u>27th 2008, </u></strong>.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong><u>During this first attempt to settle in Greece,</u></strong> Alexandre's relationship with Iphigenia had progressively turned into a nightmare, since he had been unable to deal with the specificities of the Greek society: <strong><u>his impulsive nature had brought him to make mistake after mistake</u></strong>, until a final mistake in April 2010 which put an end to their relationship and brought him back for good to France.</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong><u>Septembre 2008</u></strong><strong>. </strong><em><strong>Thessalonica</strong></em>.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="9b-87-e7-2a-39-6a-d1-26-b7-8d-d6-b7-6b-e8-95-27-7c-a9-f8-02_bis" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15195/9B-87-E7-2A-39-6A-D1-26-B7-8D-D6-B7-6B-E8-95-27-7C-A9-F8-02_bis.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> After a moment of dizziness, Alex eventually understands the opportunities his trip back in time has opened to him: in the eyes of the outside world - mainly Iphigenia's eyes -, he's still this romantic young man who has left everything behind in order to join his love on the other end of Europe, and he has made no mistake yet!</p> <p>  </p> <p> In addition, he's quite different from what he was during his "first life" in Greece: he has gathered four more years of experience, therefore he's much more mature, he now speaks Greek fluently, he has discovered - at his own expense during his "first Greek life" - the rules of the Greek society, and most importantly, he already knows all the mistakes he is going to make from 2008 to 2010... mistakes he must absolutely avoid if he wants to keep the heart of his beloved one this time.</p> <p>  </p> <p> He has kept in his mobile phone all the reproach SMS he had received from Iphigenia during his first Greek life, which are still archived in the memory of the phone ...</p> <p>  </p> <p> By simply reading them again, Alex can foresee, month after month, day after day, which obstacles will rise in front of him in the course of his new attempt to set up his life with Iphigenia in Greece. That's why, as soon as he has understood what had happened to him, Alexandre decides to radically change his destiny and transform his initial failure into a successful love story.</p> <p>  </p> <p> Each time Alex overcomes a situation of conflict by reacting differently, Iphigenia's related SMS turns into a positive message, or disappears.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>September 2008-January 2010, Thessalonica</strong></u>:</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Grece_continentale_macedoine_thessalonique_electra_palace_hotel4" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15193/Grece_continentale_macedoine_thessalonique_electra_palace_hotel4.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> From September 2008 to January 2010, Alex transforms all the SMS - except the last one - into positive messages, avoiding any mistake and setting up his life in Greece in the best possible way.</p> <p>  </p> <p> He avoids as well to get involved into the December 2008 Thessaloniki riots, a mistake which had cost him his job at the European Union during his first life...</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="R-greece-financial-crisis-large570" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15813/r-GREECE-FINANCIAL-CRISIS-large570.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> He does so well that, when reaching 2010, his relationship with Iphigenia is just perfect...</p> <p>  </p> <p> Alex is just concerned about his car, an old Renault 21 Nevada: from the moment it brought him back from 2012 to 2008, the car started ageing much faster than usual, its bodywork being month after month eaten by rust much faster than it should… as if time was achieving its work 10 times faster than on a normal car. Alexandre tries to put on some chemicals to stop the process, but it doesn’t work… It’s as if the car were  ageing the equivalent of a full year for each month of his new life.</p> <p>  </p> <p> Since Alex believes that this particular car is the key of the sustainability of his “new life”, he wants to change it for no reasons, partly out of superstition, partly because he still hasn’t understand exactly what has happened during his time travel in September 2008. He’d planned to keep this car until he’s reached July 2012 again, but it looks as if the car won’t make it that long.</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>February 2010, Thessalonica</strong></u>:</p> <p>  </p> <p> Even worse, in February 2010, a new problem appears: although his relation with Iphigenia couldn’t be better, the last SMS archived in his mobile phone, the breaking-up message, refuses to disappear.</p> <p>  </p> <p> Alex had received this specific SMS after he caused a huge scandal in the island where Iphigenia had been appointed as a trainee doctor... because he had found her there with another man. The problem is: the first time, as their relationship was in a terrible state, Iphigenia had all reasons to cheat on him.</p> <p> But after his second life, she's deeply in love with him.</p> <p>  </p> <p> Why would she do such a thing to him?</p> <p>  </p> <p> And yet, that's a fact: since the SMS didn't disappear, this is bound to happen. And Alexandre can't stand the mere thought of it!</p> <p>  </p> <p> Is there any way to prevent this disaster from happening?</p> <p>  </p> <p> More important: would it be really reasonable to disrupt the ways of Destiny in order to prevent this from happening?</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>7 April 2010, Thessalonica</strong></u>:</p> <p>  </p> <p> The Athens stock-market is collapsing. The country falls down deep into a major economical and political crisis.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Athens-stock-exchange-mar-001" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15812/Athens-Stock-Exchange-Mar-001.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> But Alex doesn't care: he has found a way to prevent Iphigenia to cheat on him... He'll prevent her encounter with her "future" lover by taking his girlfriend with him in France: he has written a script based on his own story and he's about to sell it to an editor in Paris.</p> <p>  </p> <p> He has convinced Iphigenia to come with him to Paris. She won't go to the wedding where she was supposed to meet the lover.</p> <p>  </p> <p> Alexandre is worried though: so far, he has only reacted differently to events that were to happen in any case. Now this time he willingly creates a new branch on the road of destiny. And he has no guarantee regarding the result … He may simply risk disappearing !</p> <p>  </p> <p> Yet Alexandre decides to take the risk, he takes Iphigenia with him to France. There're late, but fortunately the giant bridge where Alex had nearly fallen at the time of his leap in time from 2012 to 2008 is now completed, at least in the East-West – Thessalonica-Igoumenitsa – direction, the route they will follow. The other side of the viaduct is still under construction.</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>7 April 2010, </strong></u><u><strong>THESSALONICA - IGOUMENITSA MOTORWAY</strong></u></p> <p>  </p> <p> They finally leave Thessalonica. Iphigenia, exhausted, moves to the back seat to have some rest. The beginning of the journey is uneventful. When they arrive in Ionnina, they have made up the lost time and they are not far from Igumenitsa.</p> <p>  </p> <p> Alex is happy. He realises that on his last ride on this road in that direction, when he left Greece for good in 2010, the permanent stress of the two years spent in the country had deteriorated his eyesight. At the time he couldn’t drive without glasses, while in his new life his eyesight is perfect.</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>7 April 2010, </strong></u><u><strong>IONNINA-IGOUMENITSA SECTION OF THE MOTORWAY, CLOSE TO THE GIANT VIADUCT</strong></u></p> <p>  </p> <p> As they arrive close to the place where Alex had made his return to the past, two years before, a slight mist rises and runs on the roadway. They cross the huge viaduct without any problem, but a few hundred metres farther, Alex’s eyesight suddenly blurs.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Road_blurred" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15811/ROAD_BLURRED.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> He prepares to stop when he feels something like a pimple growing on his forehead. He turns round to ask Iphigenia to watch what it is about: the girl has disappeared from under the blanket. Alex looks at himself in the mirror: it not a pimple, it is a scar, contracted during the fight he had with Iphigenia’s ex-boy-friend … a fight that never took place during his second life !</p> <p>  </p> <p> Alex cannot ignore what is happening: he has come back to the “future”, to August 2012, the precise moment when he returns from his totally failed holidays in Greece.</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>AUGUST 2012</strong>, <strong>IONNINA-IGOUMENITSA SECTION OF THE MOTORWAY, CLOSE TO THE GIANT VIADUCT</strong></u></p> <p>  </p> <p> Totally devastated, Alex has only one thought in mind: there exists a “time bridge” between the different periods at this precise place, and if he manages to drive past this section of the motorway at a specific speed, he will be able to return to 2010, the time when he had once and for all won his girlfriend’s heart … or in 2008, even if the latter means starting everything over again !</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Tips-for-safe-driving-in-fog-1" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15810/tips-for-safe-driving-in-fog-1.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> He then engages a mad race against time : all night long, Alexandre keeps on riding in both directions on this section of the motorway, uninterruptedly driving on both sides of the bridge taking the nearest exit and entrance, something possible in 2012 when the two roadways of the viaduct had been completed.</p> <p> The moment he comes to feel this attempt is vain, as he is running out of petrol and dawn is rising behind the mountains, Iphigenia reappears at the back of the car. Alex has managed to ride back to April 2010, to the day when they are heading for France to negotiate his contract !</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>7 April 2010</strong></u>, <em><strong>the Highway</strong></em></p> <p>  </p> <p> Alex feels exhilarated. He begins to weep. Iphigenia doesn’t understand why. From the front seat, he faces her, she takes his face between her hands ... and suddenly starts screaming ! Alexandre turns round to look at the road … unfortunately it is already too late: Iphigenia has reappeared as they are heading for Thessalonica, not Igoumenitsa.</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> In 2010 the giant bridge is completed only on one side: not the side they are driving on! Their side, the Igoumenitsa-Thessalonica direction, has not yet been constructed. It takes too much time for Alexandre to realise his mistake. They have already knocked over the traffic cones, and the car, rocket-like, has already taken its flight at the end of the unfinished roadway structure. Iphigenia screams from the back seat. At the steering-wheel Alex remains stoical, waiting for his fate in resignation.</p> <p> Interminable is the fall of the car when it plunges into the gaping void, as if the womb of the earth had opened to engulf it in its depths. Then it disappears with its occupants in the fog and the night.</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong><u>April 2015</u></strong><strong>.</strong> <strong><em>Greece</em></strong><strong><em>, Halkidiki.</em></strong> Philippe and Ariane in the bathroom.</p> <p>  </p> <p> In the bathtube, Philippe has just finished telling Alexandre and Iphigenia's story. On the other side of the tub, sitting as far from him as possible, Ariane remains silent, an ice-cold look on her face. Philippe, his eyes filled with tears, looks the other way. A long silent interval elapses.</p> <p>  </p> <p> Ariane finally asks him, as calmly as possible, whether this is the way he imagines the end of their relation. Philippe doesn’t reply.</p> <p>  </p> <p> A ludicrous idea then crosses Ariane’s mind.</p> <p>  </p> <p> Without seeking Philippe’s approval, she grabs his cell phone from a chair close to the tub, she immediately selects the “Messages” folder, in which she finds a “Ariane” file, which she opens...</p> <p>  </p> <p> She reads something without showing any sign of visible emotion. She takes a look at Philippe, who is anxiously staring at her, she reads again the contents of the telephone, something which seems to baffle her: in Philippe’s phone, she’s just found a text messages he has received from her… a breaking-up text message she has never written… yet!</p> <p>  </p> <p> Indeed, this text message is dated June 15th 2015… that’s to say two months forward in time… She’s reading a message from the future! Written by her own hand!</p> <p>  </p> <p> A message which can exist only if Philippe, like his fictional alter-ego, has travelled himself through time! She can't believe it...</p> <p>  </p> <p> After a while, she puts back Philippe’s phone on the chair. She takes the land telephone of the flat and calls her father, telling him that she doesn’t leave for France any longer.</p> <p>  </p> <p> She adds that she won’t come to the wedding she was supposed to miss because of her trip to France either: she will leave the next day for Folegandros, the island where she has been appointed as a doctor, to look for a flat.</p> <p>  </p> <p> Her father wants to go with her, she sharply answers that she doesn’t need him, and that, at any rate, Philippe will be with her to help her choose THEIR apartment. “THEIR apartment ?” Ariane’s father, beside himself with surprise and anger, wants some explanation. She just answers that he has very well understood, then she hangs up.</p> <p>  </p> <p> Philippe is baffled. He was waiting for sharing officially a flat with Iphigenia from the second he arrived in Greece. Ariane puts one condition though... only one. She doesn't even precise which one.</p> <p>  </p> <p> After a while, Philippe gets it: he takes the land phone, then calls the French producer to who he was supposed to sell the story of Alex and Iphigenia the next week. He starts by telling him that he's not sure anymore to sell his script. Ariane's lips display a faint smile of happiness. She slips forward in the tub, brushing off the foam, and snuggles up in Philippe’s arms.</p> <p>  </p> <p> The camera has meanwhile moved towards Philippe’s cell phone, that Ariane has laid on the chair close to the bathtub. The message of the future, the breaking-up message from June 2015, has started to flash.</p> <p>  </p> <p> Ariane kisses Philippe, murmuring “I love you” in his ear.</p> <p>  </p> <p> Suddenly, as Philippe tells without ambiguity to the producer that he has made up his mind and that he won’t sell the script, his cell phone starts ringing continuously on the chair. The message from June 15th 2015 disappears, leaving an explicit icon:</p> <p>  </p> <p> “EMPTY”.</p> <p>  </p> <p> YOU CAN READ THE WHOLE MORE DEVELOPED STORY HERE:</p> <p>  </p> <p> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7TFszjXgMC9YWNrWGtPSTJmeUE/edit?usp=sharing</p>

Allocation of funds

<p> THERE ARE <u><strong>TWO REASONS WHY WE CAN SHOOT THIS FEATURE FILM FOR ONLY </strong></u><u><strong><strong>10.000</strong>€</strong></u>:</p> <p>  </p> <p> ●   <u><strong>nobody will be paid for the shooting</strong></u>, eventhough most of the people involved are professionals... it's nice to have the right friends sometimes... :-)</p> <p>  </p> <p> ●   <u><strong>a part of the film </strong></u>- <u><strong>the most difficult one</strong></u> to shoot : scenes of the time-travels with the car on the highway, flash-backs, etc... - <u><strong>will be edited through stop-motion Black and White pictures</strong></u><strong> </strong>used as illustrations of Philippe's story-telling, heard through a voice-over.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>   -&gt; <u>no direct sound-recording </u>for these scenes</strong> = much faster and easier shooting!</p> <p>  </p> <p>    <strong>-&gt; </strong>this part of the film will have<strong> <u>a really original, almost experimental </u></strong><strong><u>look</u></strong>, which is in full accordance with Alexandre's strange experience of a - several in fact - Time Travel(s).</p> <p>  </p> <p> Well, I guess most of you guys know me already... many of you even took a part in some of my previous movies - certainly in one of my 11 shorts... or maybe in the feature one, shot in 2005 with Erasmus friends in Thessalonica -.</p> <p>  </p> <p> I'm the globe-trotter of the "no-budget" movies, since I've directed movies in Greece, in France, in Italy, in Turkey, in Bosnia, in Serbia... with Greek, English, Italian, French, Turk, Serbo-Croate or I don't know what other languages...</p> <p>  </p> <p> An important part of my films have been shot for the 48h Film Festivals - with all the mistakes such a short timing implies -, and I rarely correct them afterwards, because I consider them as "drafts" of films I could reshoot one day with a proper budget.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>PREVIOUS FILMS</strong></u>:</p> <p>  </p> <p> ●  <u><strong><em>L'Andouillette du Père Cholier</em></strong></u> - Best Scenario + Best Character, Festival du Film en 48h de Lyon 2012:</p> <p>  </p> <p> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJhVp2eQwqU</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Photo_fr_res_lumi_re_ter" height="218" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15359/Photo_Fr_res_Lumi_re_TER.jpg" width="377"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Andouillette" height="227" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15331/Andouillette.jpg" width="413"></p> <p>  </p> <p> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJhVp2eQwqU</p> <p>  </p> <p> Written, shot and edited in less than 48h. For this one, I'm in the process of shooting a 14min, still not edited.</p> <p>  </p> <p> Among other films:</p> <p>  </p> <p> ● <u><strong>"<em>Alice in the Corridor of Marvels</em>"</strong></u>, Best Production, Athens 48h Film Festival 2008:</p> <p>  </p> <p> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx1zCyuc1bM</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Through_the_corridor_of_wonders" height="289" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15366/Through_the_Corridor_of_Wonders.jpg" width="389"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> ● <u><strong>"<em>Aujourd'hui: rien</em>!"</strong></u>, official selection Festival de Clermont-Ferrand 2011</p> <p>  </p> <p> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfr2ELznstI</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Aujourd_hui_quint" height="238" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15405/Aujourd_hui_quint.jpg" width="421"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Aujourd_hui.._bis" height="266" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15406/Aujourd_hui.._bis.jpg" width="472"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Aujourdhui.." src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15407/Aujourdhui...jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Aujourd_ter" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15408/Aujourd_ter.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Aujourd_hui_quat" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15409/Aujourd_hui_quat.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> ● "<em><u><strong>The Lost Hope</strong></u></em>" (Best Photography, Athens 48h Film Festival 2009):</p> <p>  </p> <p> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI8da2HNfFs</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Lost_hope_2_correct" height="288" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15412/Lost_Hope_2_correct.jpg" width="432"></p> <p>  </p> <p> ● "<u><strong><em>La revanche de LEOPARDMAN</em></strong></u><em>"</em>, shot in five countries and in six languages (personal project never presented in festivals). My favourite movie...</p> <p>  </p> <p> http://vimeo.com/8975889 (Part 1)</p> <p> http://vimeo.com/8992401 (Part 2)</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Leopardman" height="430" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15413/Leopardman.jpg" width="334"></p> <p>  </p> <p> ●<strong> "</strong><u><strong><em>Il Grande Furto</em>" - The Great Robbery</strong></u> (Rome 48h Film Festival 2010, off-competition):</p> <p>  </p> <p> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O83AaQ1d_i8</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="The_great_robbery_3" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15415/The_Great_Robbery_3.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> ● <strong> "</strong><u><strong><em>Il Codice del Gusto</em>" - Les codes de saveur</strong></u> (Rome 48h Film Festival 2011, off-competition):</p> <p>  </p> <p> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly8un2BLIYc</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Il_codice_del_gusto_bis" height="223" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15417/Il_Codice_del_Gusto_bis.jpg" width="397"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> ● <em><u><strong>John &amp; Johnny</strong></u></em>, Lyon 2005:</p> <p>  </p> <p> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EulkkyrlaI</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="John_and_johnny_correct" height="243" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15418/John_and_Johnny_correct.jpg" width="373"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>L'EQUIPE</strong></u>:</p> <p>  </p> <p> <em>Actors</em>:</p> <p>  </p> <p> ● <u><strong>Olivier Drémont </strong></u>- aka Philippe</p> <p>  </p> <p> Main actor of <em>L'Andouillette du Père Cholier</em> and first supporting-actor of <em>Aujourd'hui: rien</em>!, Olivier Drémont will be the main actor of <em>Second Chance</em>. It will be our 7th film together.</p> <p>  </p> <p> Screen-shot "<u><strong><em>L'andouillette du Père Cholier</em></strong></u>", 2012 (main character, Jacques Cholier, cook):</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Photo_pio" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15360/Photo_Pio.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> Screen-shot d'"<u><strong><em>Aujourd'hui: rien</em></strong></u>!", 2011 (first supporting-actor, a petulant judge).</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Piopio" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15361/piopio.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> ● <u><strong>Cédric Magnien </strong></u>- aka "Alexandre"</p> <p>  </p> <p> Screen-shots "<u><strong><em>Leopardman</em></strong></u>", 2009 (main character, a bi-polar psychotic script-writer)</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Ced_leopardman_1" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15419/Ced_Leopardman_1.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Ced_leo_4" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15420/Ced_Leo_4.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> Screen-shot "<em><u><strong>Je suis [l'avenir]</strong></u></em>" (in post-production, main character, Dr Tyrell, an arrogant scientist):</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Ced" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15357/CED.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> ● <u><strong>Mathilde Ménager</strong></u><strong> </strong>- aka Ariane:</p> <p>  </p> <p> Professional theater actress. It will be our first movie together.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Mathilde" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15421/Mathilde.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> ● <u><strong>MaXi Papagrigoriou</strong></u><strong> </strong>- aka Iphigenia -:</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="168320_1790978175117_5428714_n" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15427/168320_1790978175117_5428714_n.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> ● <u><strong>Kostas Grivas</strong></u>- aka Kostas, Alex's best friend:</p> <p>  </p> <p> It will be our 4th movie together . Kostas had the leading male role in <em>Alice in the Corridor </em>and <em>The Best Hope</em>, and he had the second role in <em>Leopardman</em>.</p> <p>  </p> <p> Screen-shots from <em>Alice in the Corridor</em>:</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Kostas_2" height="204" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15590/KOSTAS_2.jpg" width="371"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Kostas_3" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15592/Kostas_3.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> Screen-shots from <em>The Lost Hope</em>:</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Lost_hope_correct" height="469" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15589/Lost_Hope_correct.jpg" width="454"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Kostas_4" height="225" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15593/Kostas_4.jpg" width="402"></p> <p>  </p> <p> Screen-shots from <em>Leopardman</em>:</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Kostas_5" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15596/Kostas_5.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> I spent my whole life producing movies in my own way, outside of any "traditional" or "institutional" production system, without being dependent on any "National Center of Cinema" or any "TV channels director of programs".</p> <p>  </p> <p> I guess that's why my movies are different, with a strong attention given to the scenario... and why my approach of the story-telling is still free and fresh.</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> This time I've decided to give more emphasis on the technical part - the weak part of my previous projects -, taking with me a whole technical crew and a very good Director of Photography. We'll shoot with a Canon 5D Mark III, we'll have a real sound engineer, and we're going for an actual FEATURE MOVIE - about 110/120min.</p> <p>  </p> <p> ● <u><strong>Andreas Stenger </strong></u>- Director of Photography:</p> <p>  </p> <p> http://www.andreasstenger.com/</p> <p>  </p> <p> Screen-shot "<em>Père Cholier</em>":</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Andreas_dop_2" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15428/Andreas_DOP_2.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Andreas_dop_3" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15429/Andreas_DOP_3.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Andreas_dop_4" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/15430/Andreas_DOP_4.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> The directing will be quite original, since the narration will mix "classic" dialogued scenes and stop-motion picture scenes with a voice-over telling the story.</p> <p>  </p> <p> In order to get a professional result, we need 10.000€. That's no much for a feature movie - many people will tell you that it isn't possible to shoot a feature film with 10.000€...</p> <p>  </p> <p> Don't believe their lies... Last year, I directed a 30min long short-movie for.. 37€, and yet it has been selected in Clermont-Ferrand festival, the most reknown short-movie festival in the world!</p> <p>  </p> <p> Trust me on this, I can do it. I've raised already 5.000€, I've just signed a contract for an ad for 1.500€ which will be immediately reinvested in the shooting. But I still need your help to find the missing 3.500€ . This time I can't afford the whole cost of the shooting by myself, since I have a whole team with me.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>You can help even by giving just 10 or 20€.</strong></u></p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>This way this movie, based on a great story, can actually be shot</strong></u>, and when it will go to festivals, you'll be able to say: this is partly thanks to me!</p> <p>  </p> <p> Plus <u><strong>your name will be in the final credits... for ever</strong></u>. You've got my word on this...</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> Since I want to be transparent about it, here is the <u><strong>FINANCIAL SETTING-UP</strong></u>:</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> - <strong><em>30-31/03/2013: <u>shooting of the French scenes</u></em></strong>.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <em>* 2 cars trip Lyon-Ardèche</em>: 150€</p> <p> *<em> 3 days renting of the Nagra audio recorder</em>: 3 x 120€ = 360€</p> <p> <em>* renting of the smoke machine: 70€</em></p> <p> <em>* renting of the bubble machine</em><em>: 60€</em></p> <p> <em>* general expenses: 100</em>€</p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>TOTAL SHOOTING FRANCE</strong></u>: <strong>740€</strong></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> - <strong><em>5/04-16/04/2013: <u>scouting in Greece</u></em></strong>.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <em>* two ways trip Lyon-Thessalonica: 250€</em></p> <p> <em>* car renting 6 days: 200€</em></p> <p> * <em>scouting gasoline - 300kms: 150€</em></p> <p> <em>*</em> <em>two ways trip to Athens</em>: 100€</p> <p> * <em>casting + shooting pre-production</em>: 300€</p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong><u>TOTAL SCOUTING GREECE</u>: 1.000€</strong></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> - <strong><em>23/04-4/05/2013: Greek shooting</em></strong>.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <em><u><strong>CAR</strong></u>:</em></p> <p> <em>* bying of the car - Renault Nevada 2.1D : 700€</em></p> <p> <em>* one month car special insurrance for movie shooting : 200€</em></p> <p>  </p> <p> <em><strong>SUB-TOTAL CAR</strong></em><strong>: <u>900</u>€</strong></p> <p>  </p> <p> <em><u><strong>TRAVELS</strong></u>:</em></p> <p> <em>* two ways back by car Lyon-Thessaloniki: 500€</em></p> <p> <em>* Ferry 2 ways Bari-Igoumenitsa 5 people: 500€</em></p> <p> <em>* two ways trip Thessaloniki-Athens: 100€</em></p> <p> <em>* Ferry 2 ways Athens-Folegandros 5 people + car: 500€</em></p> <p> <em>* 4 days accomodation 5 people in Folegandros: 300€</em></p> <p> <em>* 5 days accomodation 5 people in Athens: 300€</em></p> <p> <em>* 7 days accomodation 5 people in Thessaloniki: 400€</em></p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong><em>SUB-TOTAL TRAVELS</em>: <u>2.600</u>€</strong></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>EQUIPMENT RENTING</strong></u>:</p> <p>  </p> <p> <em>* smoke machine 5 days renting: 200€</em></p> <p> <em>* silent power-generator 7 days: 400€</em></p> <p> <em>* Nagra renting - 15 days:1.500€</em></p> <p> <em>* Canon 5D Mark III - 20 days renting: 720€</em></p> <p> <em>* Canon 14mm 2.8 - 20 days renting: 260€</em></p> <p> <em>* Canon 50mm 1.2 - 20 days renting:  180€</em></p> <p> <em>* Canon 24-70mm 2.8 II - 20 days renting: 300€</em></p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong><em>SUB-TOTAL EQUIPMENT RENTING</em>: <u>3.560</u>€</strong></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>DAY TO DAY GENERAL EXPENSES</strong></u>:</p> <p>  </p> <p> <em>* 20 days general expenses 5 people in Greece - food, etc...: 1.200€</em></p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong><em>SUB-TOTAL GENERAL EXPENSES</em>: <u>1.200</u>€</strong></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>TOTAL SHOOTING GREECE</strong></u>: <strong>8.260€</strong></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong><u>GENERAL COST</u></strong>: 740 + 1.000 + 8.260 = <strong><u>10.0</u></strong><u><strong>00€</strong></u></p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>MONEY AVAILABLE ON DATE 25/03/2013</strong></u>: personal loan 5.000€ + pre-signed contract 1.500€ = <u><strong>6.500€</strong></u></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>MONEY MISSING</strong></u>: <u><strong>3.500€</strong></u></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <em>Kisskissbankbank </em>takes 8% of the money raised, so if we reach 3.500€ money raising, it leaves 3.220€ available.</p> <p>  </p> <p> We would miss 280€, maybe a bit more to be cool. We can do it if we reach 3.500€ thanks to this crowdfunding. But if we reach 3.490€ fundings, we get... nothing!</p> <p>  </p> <p> Help us!</p>

Rewards

€10

Free "live access" to the different successive versions of the film via "private links" on Youtube. You can give your opinion on each editing, helping through your comments the editor to achieve the "final" editing designed for festivals. >> you interact with the film by becoming "privileged test-viewers". There will be a bit of yourself in the final result: I always listen to any single comment and opinion to make my own choice.

€20

same as for 10€ + a "special edition" DVD signed by the author and by the actors, with the film in its finalized version for festivals. + invitation for the Première of the film in Lyon, Thessalonica and Athens - open-bar + "home-made" Greek diner + your first name in the category "Sponsors" of the final credits of the film.

€30

idem 20€ - Youtube link / signed DVD / invitation for the "première" + your full name in the category "patrons/sponsors" in final credits of the final version of the film - the one broadcast in festivals/cinemas.

€50

idem 30€ + a special edition of the film poster, signed by the whole team. + your name in the intro credits "The shooting of this film has been made possible thanks to the generosity of (your full name)"

€100

    Everything described above + a Time-Travel in my Renault Nevada special edition : I take you over the 149km/h limit and we go back together, for a period of 15 min, back in 1991, the exact day of the start of the 1st Gulf War/ Desert Storm operation.

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