Film Projects
My decision to move to film production was logical. After software was declared by some communist or hippie “free and open source”, I could not make any money by writing decent computer software products as the business model went to hire most incompetent programmers, write crap with high budgets and sell bug fixes afterwards. This wasn’t my way.
So, meanwhile I made myself living from new technologies by putting in 1998 $2K to NASDAQ and took total $68K out of it until 2002. As music was free too because of MP3 format, I didn’t make any money anymore by producing it. Therefore I turned to film projects. People are still paying at least $1.95 to watch a movie and when producing few thousand dollar budget porn clips, you can sell those for $3.95.
All my projects are financially viable low budget – high size niche market projects, so I’m still surprised that I haven’t been able to execute those?
“Together Divided” is a lesbian love story about two nurses, who living in remote hospice helped lonely elders to join with their loved ones in heaven by killing them. Subsequently they where convicted as serial killers. I started the project in January 2005 with professional writer – Mark Ingram working with the script.
This project seems to be moving forward finally as it has a French director interested and around 70% funding in place.
Another feature project comes from my original idea to make movie about suicide terrorist. An Arab person, well educated in British Academy moves to career on Saddams army until his classmates will kill his family and he finds himself fighting against them.
Moving to Northern Ireland changed little bit the story so being impressed by Bobby Sands and by Northern Ireland Screen suggestion to have relevancy to the Northern Ireland until they can finance it. So, I would like to tell a story about a honest guy whose activities corrupted bureaucrats does not like so they put him away to prison. But he is an poet and cannot stand to be in such kind of environment. And he knows that he never gets away from there so he decides to go suicide.
It will be good to shoot in famous Maze Prison in Northern Ireland where most of the political prisoners once was held and if I shoot it there on low budget again, Screen Northern Ireland will cover 50% of production costs. So far, I have had difficulties to find a writer able to write on such kind of topic. I would like to name it “Society on Limited Liability”.
Meanwhile I wanted to execute some documentary projects but wasn’t able to sell them to corrupted incompetent idiots who have named themselves Commissioning Editors of TV Channels:
Abandoning documentary projects