3 september 2013
Goldpeople
Mama Sissoko cleans the gold village. She doesn't care about gold. She is one against all... We need you to start the postproduction.
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Goldpeople
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<strong>The gold rush to the gold village with goldpeople...and a gold woman</strong></p>
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<em>Footages extract from the "goldpeolple" shooting</em></p>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/69718179" width="540"></iframe></p>
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<u><strong>Mama Sissoko</strong></u></p>
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The story of Mama Sissoko has started two years ago when I was gathering documentation for a movie in West Africa.</p>
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The woman was cleaning small village of gold in Senegal. That's where I've also slept.</p>
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The screams in the middle of the gold village in the morning as well as washing dogs around miners was like a performance.</p>
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This moment has changed my life. I've stayed for 10 more days as I was intrigued by this lady...</p>
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<u><strong>Synopsis</strong></u></p>
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People from all around West Africa come to Bantaco in Senegal every year during the dry season to try their lucky in finding gold. Mama Sissoko is responsible for cleaning central point in the village.</p>
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Children and adults work in an extreme condition, temperature often reaches 40 degrees heat, they don't have proper equipment so they use mercury to find gold. This cause huge risk to the workers health, brings disease but also allows for growth of prostitution. However Mama Sissoko is not interested in finding gold or that kind of life...</p>
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She is constantly fighting against people who don't care about health issues and she tries to keep some control over the sanitary standards of the village. </p>
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When she is not trying to improve workers safety conditions and their health, she takes care of her many dogs, growths herbs and help prostitutes with their health issues. </p>
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She is alone, one soul against all. Everyone else care only about the gold and that's why the village exists.</p>
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The story will be 66 minutes long, balancing between documentary and fiction. Mama Sissoko will be our guide inside the dirty world obsessed with gold.</p>
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<u>The gold vilage</u></p>
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at some points she will take the camera to show us how strong she is when she heals prostitution with her herbs or by sacrifice of a chicken. She shows how brave she is when fighting with people about over they dirty lifestyle, but sometimes she seams lost like a child in the fog, when she is tired of constant fight with world around her. . .</p>
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<u>Hitcham and the lucky boy</u></p>
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...and her antagonist character is Hitcham. Man who left his wife in Mali and arrived to Bantaco looking for a gold. He is concentrated on earning a lot of money but the soil is not good to him. He is depressed because he can't have a baby and he is separated from his wife.</p>
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On the other hand Mama Sissoko is playing burlesque acts to keep life more happy.</p>
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Luckily that the village has children, who are surrounding Mama Sissoko and they found gold during spontaneous play in the river...</p>
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<em><strong>Documentation about Mama Sissoko - Hitcham - The lucky boy and the gold</strong></em></p>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/45191584" width="540"></iframe></p>
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<img alt="Hitcham3" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/32383/hitcham3.jpg"><img alt="1" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/32384/1.jpg"><img alt="Bandaco3" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/32385/bandaco3.jpg"><img alt="Fire" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/32386/fire.jpg"><img alt="Mamaafrica1" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/32388/mamaafrica1.jpg"><img alt="Boy9" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/32393/boy9.jpg"></p>
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<img alt="Goldgigger1" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/32390/goldgigger1.jpg"><img alt="Gold" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/32392/gold.jpg"></p>
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<img alt="Bambo" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/32394/bambo.jpg"></p>
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Allocation of funds
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<u><strong>The beginning of project</strong></u></p>
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When I came back from West Africa I showed the documentation about Mama Sissoko and the gold village to the spectators and they have instantly felt in love with her. In one year many people have helped me to organise this trip. </p>
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Filmfiction Small house of production in Warsaw and Central Electronic small house of production in Paris give me :</p>
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-1000 E for 2x recorder of sound Tascam</p>
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-2000 E for 3 go pro hero3 black edition, 2x go pro hero2 ,accessories ( steady cam, charger, battery,magic)</p>
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<u><strong>The shooting</strong></u></p>
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To keep the intimate climate of this shooting, we took few small cameras go pro 3 black and to show the energy of this adventure, we have found our dream team to work with on it: </p>
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Director and cinematographer Paulina Pisarek, cinematographer Anna Rzepka and editor Caroline Detournay.</p>
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On 12 of December 2012, in west Sahara in Morocco, we have started to test the new camera go pro 3 black.</p>
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After long hitch-hiki, we came to the Mauritania to make our first part of the shooting — the longest train in the world, on the desert line Zouerat - Choum-Nouadhibou. </p>
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To be fully satisfied with our shooting, we took this train 3 times. One way on the train takes 20 hours in very harsh climate of the Sahara West. </p>
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This part of material is the start of the movie and an beginning of the adventure with Mama.</p>
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<img alt="Train" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/32848/train.jpg"></p>
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<em>Caroline editor needed a little break and Paulina director observed the landskape in sun.</em></p>
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After 2 weeks of shooting in Mauritania we've ride by motorcycle directly to the gold village near Kedougou in Senegal.</p>
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Shooting with Mama Sissoko took us 1 and half months.</p>
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Leaving in the village with their people gave us opportunity to be near, experience first hand and bulid good relation and trust with the people of the village.</p>
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The camera in some parts of the movie is attached to our characters: children playing in the river and working in diura, gold miner going 40 m underground to dig gold .</p>
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One scene in the movie is in the house of prostituts and was shoot by Mama Sissoko.</p>
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<img alt="Mama_camera" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/32985/mama_camera.jpg"></p>
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<em>Mama Sissoko is taking the camera from her bag of herbs and she is going to do the shooting.</em></p>
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<img alt="1906" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/32986/1906.jpg"></p>
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<em>The camera is atached to the thorax of Mama Sissoko and Mama is shooting scen in burdel.</em></p>
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<em>Mama shooting prostitutes.</em></p>
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<em>Mama Sissoko shooting client of the house of prostitution.</em></p>
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In extreme condition of work, in 50 degrees heat, in sand without electricity we have filmed 40 hours of material in 2K quality and finally we have to edit 66 minutes - duration of the movie.</p>
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Now after 2 years of pre-production and 2 months of shooting we ask for your help to finish editing and post production of the movie. </p>
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<u>What do we need?</u></p>
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1000E - editing</p>
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1000E - editing sound and mixing</p>
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1000E - color effect - conformation - diffusion - DVD</p>
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500E - music</p>
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280E - Kisskissbankbank 8%</p>
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<u>What can we give you back?</u></p>
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-the adventure trip with Mama Sissoko with the movie</p>
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-the track mp3 from the DJ of the village</p>
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-the plants protected from vampire</p>
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-the dvd of movie</p>
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-the poster of movie</p>
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-the making of movie</p>
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-to be on the end of movie in generic</p>
Rewards
€5
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A great thank you and an invitation to the first projection of the film...this valid for all our kissbankers .
€10
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The 10 track MP3 from the best DJ of Bantaco- gold village
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€20
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Rewards before and the plant protected against Vampire.
€50
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Rewards before and DVD of the movie.
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€100
Rewards before and poster of movie 90x60 cm with seing of Mama Sissoko.
€250
Rewards before and DVD to the making of the movie
€500
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Rewards before and to be on generic film.