Backers for ‘Boy’ needed
By Siobhan Leathley,
New Zealand film Boy has 17 days left to raise just over $70,000 for the film to be shown in America.
Boy director Taika Waititi has taken to Kickstarter to drum up $90,000 in order to "release the film from captivity" and bring it to US cinemas "where it belongs".
So far 236 backers have contributed more than $19,000 to the cause.
Waititi has also promised to "visit as many places as I can so you can beat me up in person afterwards if you didn’t like it. Thanks for your help, mysterious people".
Boy is one of New Zealand's most successful films. It earned nearly $900,000 in the first week of its release and earned more on its opening day than any other Kiwi film.
Comments
Donald Holder
Hmmm. Where's the Film Commission in all of this? You'd think NZ's most successful film would get a little help with this kind of thing.
RL
So where do we make a donation or somthing?
Esther Goh
RL - just visit the link to the Kickstarter project.
Kevin Webby
@Donald - the film commission probably paid to have the film made? = a significant investment already! It needs to stand on it's own two feet at some point. Proposed entry into a potentially lucrative U.S market seems like a reasonable place to start to me. Don't forget if the film commission gives money from it's limited funding pool to this already established project that's lesss it has in the kitty for other developing new projects which could be the next 'Boy' movie?
Aimee
This from koha.biz
“Against all odds, his talented team of producers managed to secure almost six million dollars to make Boy. While much of the funding came from the New Zealand Film Commission and Te Mängai Paho, capital was also raised through financing from U.S. sources.”
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