Sensible Erection | Help send my cute children's film to festivals!

Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Help send my cute children's film to festivals!

quote [ The short film is about a little boy from Brooklyn who, fascinated by the concept of flight, sets out to find a way to take to the skies. ]

SE, I need your support! I've worked on this short for over 8 months, have 5 more days of fundraising left and need your help! Your contributions would be tax deductible, and the rewards are awesome. Can't post the film publicly, but PM me and I'll share the protected link so you can see what you're supporting!

The film is a family film that celebrates the innocence of children and their belief that anything is possible. Promoting literacy and education, The Problem of Gravity invites us all on a wonderful journey in which we learn to seek the answers to our biggest dreams in the simplest of solutions.

Trailer Below.

[art] [by TStryker@4:13pmGMT] [+10 Good]

Comments

TStryker said @ 4:17pm GMT on 8th Feb
Having issues with the code for the Trailer...maybe this will work?

Ankylosaur said @ 9:01pm GMT on 8th Feb
You have to remove the "http:"

blacksun said @ 4:39pm GMT on 8th Feb
Just curious, why didn't you use Kickstarter?

TStryker said @ 6:50pm GMT on 8th Feb [Score:1 Informative]
I used indiegogo because it allows for donations to be tax deductible.

* (The Asshole FKA Morris) said @ 5:48pm GMT on 8th Feb
cute

TStryker said @ 8:59pm GMT on 8th Feb
Thanks! :-)

kitten said @ 7:47pm GMT on 8th Feb
tax deductible for canadians?

TStryker said @ 9:00pm GMT on 8th Feb
Looking into it now Kitten...Meow.

endopol said @ 9:45pm GMT on 8th Feb
I feel like the trailer ends too soon.

zenviper said @ 10:31pm GMT on 8th Feb
Yes- More Trailer!

TStryker said @ 10:34pm GMT on 8th Feb [Score:1 Informative]
The film is only 5 min long, so the trailer is already showing about 1/6th of it. The perils of a trailer for a short film...

sanepride said @ 10:38pm GMT on 8th Feb [Score:3 Funny]
Must...resist...urge..to ..downmod....'unworthy self link'....
Must....fight....pomposity.....

lalanda said @ 10:54pm GMT on 8th Feb
Well, the mod works. But it's more begging than trying to make money or get hits, so it's not really necessary.

Also, I think you're on probation.

sanepride said @ 11:17pm GMT on 8th Feb
We have probation here?

Ankylosaur said @ 11:29pm GMT on 8th Feb [Score:2]
As of this moment, you're on DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION!

TStryker said @ 1:30am GMT on 9th Feb
Yeah, I thought I'd have been downmodded, but glad that SE is such a supportive community. I'm trying to create good content is difficult on the dole. Too bad I chose one of the most expensive ways to express myself artistically...

GordonGuano said @ 2:27am GMT on 9th Feb
Will see if I can help out come payday. (It's the closest I'll ever get to having a producer credit, amirite?) Perhaps for your next project, let us know more than four days before crunch time, eh?

TStryker said @ 12:29am GMT on 14th Feb
Done! I didn't even think about putting it up until recently. I'll have it up online probably in a year! :-)

mrcucumber said @ 5:10pm GMT on 9th Feb [Score:-1 Unworthy Self Link]
You are just like a 10 year old I went to school with. Keep repeating a meme because if you keep repeating it, somehow you remove the shit from yourself.

sanepride said @ 9:42pm GMT on 9th Feb [Score:1 Underrated]
Quite the contrary. I embrace the shit, even revel in it.
So fuck off.

mrcucumber said @ 11:02pm GMT on 9th Feb
roger that.

damnit said @ 3:30am GMT on 10th Feb [Score:-1]

The other side is better...

Ankylosaur said @ 10:52pm GMT on 8th Feb [Score:2]
And on a different note....

Iron Sky: President Palin vs. Moon Nazis

sacrelicious said @ 10:55pm GMT on 8th Feb
why are there no original ideas in Hollywood?

Ankylosaur said @ 11:03pm GMT on 8th Feb
Hollywood had nothing to do with it. It's a Finnish-German-Australian-Internet collaboration.

GordonGuano said @ 1:26am GMT on 9th Feb
Why would moon Nazis attack an America with Sarah Palin as President? Mission fucking accomplished.

sanepride said @ 11:11pm GMT on 8th Feb
This movie has an actual release date? Seems like I've been seeing trailers for it for years now.

paul_austin0816 said @ 6:15pm GMT on 9th Feb
this trailer would fit in nicely with those fake Grindhouse trailers.

However that being said I actually can't wait to this this real movie.

sanepride said @ 12:48am GMT on 9th Feb [Score:4 Funny]
Speaking of short films featuring Asians-

Michigan Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra's possibly racist Super Bowl ad:

And the 'Funny or Die' parody"

Controversial Racist Pete Hoekstra Ad - watch more funny videos

lilmookieesquire said @ 2:39am GMT on 9th Feb
The original wad much funnier. That Asian girl has tracings of a drawl and sounds more American than I do. I guess it's hard to sound Asian when you can't tell if you want to puke in your mouth or laugh out loud. (also, "old") <3

lilmookieesquire said @ 2:41am GMT on 9th Feb
She also reminds me of the Asian girl in bamboo. All of them.

sanepride said @ 3:16am GMT on 9th Feb
I agree. A good example of how hard it is to parody something that's a parody of itself.

lilmookieesquire said @ 6:49am GMT on 9th Feb
They should have either made her a total valley girl or just go way overboard (long pony tail, hat, buck teeth, glasses... or just add clips from the Rambo movies) but I suppose this version was safer and to the point.

Roulette1337 said @ 12:56am GMT on 9th Feb
In other news while you try to gain a little money for your interesting and inventive video this dick uses his father's connections to waste money and effort on a bullshit rant.

GordonGuano said @ 2:19am GMT on 9th Feb
So...it's Max Brooks with lower production values?

I spotted at least one porn star, and there was enough cleavage to keep me watching the whole thing. And a double facepalm really is the only appropriate thing to do after you say the words "Booster Gold".

sacrelicious said @ 3:19am GMT on 9th Feb
his father's money and connections? I would be very surprised if this video cost more than $200 to make. ANYONE on youtube could have made this. I didn't even know who the hell his father was until the very end, and even then I thought he was [YOU KNOW WHO'S] son until I read his last name. this is hardly an egregious case of nepotism. and as for that cameo at the end, the guy is probably a close family friend, and probably lives down the street. it's not like his dad called in some kind of huge favor to get him on board.

as for the vid:

-1 for that trite old interpretation of Supes that "he isn't interesting cause he's not drenched in massively overwrought pathos! PAAAAAAAATHOOOOOOOOOS!!!"

-1 for the absurd suggestion that death in comics was anything close to sacrosanct until Superman went and ruined it for everyone else.

-1 for ignoring the fact that DC was totally upfront right from the start about wanting to bring back Superman after killing him, and that the media pretty much ignored that part through equal parts being out of touch with comics, and wanting to make it a more compelling story for viewers.

-1 for being oblivious to the fact that for supposedly hating this story so much, he knows an awful lot of detail, and clearly read every goddamn page. a couple of times even.

+3 for the amusing re-telling of the whole story, because I actually enjoyed that story arc at the time (the return part more than the death), so it's nice to see a sweded version of it.

sacrelicious said @ 3:28am GMT on 9th Feb
gah, I meant +4. it was supposed to balance out, see, but I forgot how many minuses I added, and accidentally made this a net -1.

Ebichuman said @ 10:13am GMT on 9th Feb [Score:1 Underrated]
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU MUST DO NOW.

foobar said @ 4:56am GMT on 9th Feb
-1 for being oblivious to the fact that for supposedly hating this story so much, he knows an awful lot of detail, and clearly read every goddamn page. a couple of times even.

Or has access to wikipedia.

satanspenis666 said @ 3:34am GMT on 9th Feb

Gravity from a sewing needle in outerspace

schatten00777 said @ 10:25am GMT on 9th Feb
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but that looks more like static electricity than gravity to me.

KingPellinore said @ 1:22pm GMT on 9th Feb
What if static electricity IS gravity!?

bluecalx said @ 7:43pm GMT on 10th Feb
It isn't.

mechanical contrivance said @ 2:53am GMT on 11th Feb
But what if it is?

DeadCarbonCopy said @ 5:27am GMT on 9th Feb
Ok, I read help send my cute children to film festival. I was confused.

Starjump said @ 7:10am GMT on 9th Feb
Your movie trailer reminded me of this story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilmer_of_Malmesbury