Sheean launches crowd funding campaign
Berlin-based Australian writer/director Eron Sheean has launched a crowd funding campaign to finance his feature Errors of the Human Body, which will be distributed by Curious Film.
Sheaan’s goal is to raise U$25,000 and so far has been backed by 42 people with U$7,610. The Kickstarter pledge has 34 days to go.
Sheean’s shorts – including 2005’s Fish – have screened at festivals such as Berlin and Melbourne, where he won the Emerging Australian Filmmaker award. He was also nominated for an award at the Sydney Film Festival.
Errors of the Human Body is a film “about one man’s quest for redemption from his own disturbing past, set within the mysterious world of genetic engineering”. It’s been developed during Sheean’s time as an artist-in-resident at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany.
“We are scheduled to start shooting in three weeks and have decided to try out Kickstarter in the hope of raising the remainder of our budget. Please take a look at the link and hopefully the project will appeal to you and you would like to support us,” said Sheean.
“We have set our target at 25,000 US, still knowing we need to raise more. However, if we go above our target it only helps us raise the rest of the money for what is a very ambitious and out of the box film – what else would you expect from me! Wish us luck on our film and thank you for taking the time to have a look!”
The film will be shot in Germany by Australian cinematographer Anna Howard, using the new ARRI Alexa camera.
The pledge can be found here.
