It’s not a “real” spaghetti western, but as we’ll go to Almeria, I thought I could come here to do a little publicity for the short film we are about to shoot next month in Spain and Switzerland.
Because the short is already quite difficult to pull off. We don’t get money from the cultural affairs here in Switzerland for this project as they don’t really dig this kind of films.
The idea is to develop it as a feature afterwards yes, but I think we have to make a (hopefully) decent short first to try and convince people/producers that we can manage that.
Well, I think it can be commercially fruitful, especially because a little horror is thrown in the mix. Could you tell a little bit about the synopsis?
Anyway, being a European western, I’ve put the movie in the database: http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Dead_Bones
Feel free to alter of course, it’s your movie.
We are working on something like 60-65’000 euros approx. It’s still moving. We did not get the support from the … National Fund for Culture (I guess would be a good translation) so that means almost nobody gets paid on the film. Actors do get something and some technicians (myself and the producer certainly don’t…) do as well. But it’s a very tight budget for what we are doing.
We are now transfering the tapes from HD to miniDV for editing. We plan to finish the film for July if everything goes fine. Then we’ll send it to festivals all around the globe, hoping they like it and we’ll sell the DVD on our site.
Editing is almost done, clocking at 17mn without credits.
We are starting the grading this weekend and next month is for sound and music.
Premiere will be in July at the Neuchatel Fantastic Film Festival in Switzerland. So far the film is also selected at the Weekend de la Peur in south of France in August and in September in Strasbourg.