"Autumn Leaves" - Help financing a short film by Filipe Coutinho

Filipe F. Coutinho is a L.A. based Portuguese young filmmaker studying at New York Film Academy and he is producing his next film, Autumn Leaves, a 15-minute drama short film chiefly inspired in one of the greatest family dramas of all time, Ordinary People (1980).

"Autumn Leaves tells the story of Peter Sanders, a mid-30s wheelchair-bound man who comes home to die after being diagnosed with liver cancer. The story follows his relationship with Joanne, an adulterous wife who desperately tries to reach to him, and Lindsay, his six-year-old daughter who tries to cure him with love and Bob Dylan songs. Peter soon realizes that he’s not fighting cancer but his own fears and frustrations.  "

The call for crowdfunding is hosted by IndieGoGo and they have twelve days to plummet their already achieved $1.250 towards the aimed $7.000. I challenge you to visit the page of the project, check their notes and intentions, their team, their commitment. And to contribute if you can.
 

Black Mask, um projecto de Filipe Coutinho

Filipe Ferraz Coutinho é um companheiro de blogosfera cinéfila, sediado no há muito recomendado, Cinema is my life. Desta vez, os seus projectos excederam em muito a barreira do computador e está neste momento em pré-produção da curta-metragem Black Mask, que também escreveu e realizará.

Jimmy McNamara is an ex-writer and ex-WW II veteran turned accountant who receives a call from Vivian, his ex-fiancé and current night club singer. Vivian got a Hollywood contract and is taking Jimmy with her. All he has to do is retrieve the negatives of compromising pictures that a gossip columnist is about to publish and that put her future career in danger. But his mission might not be as simple as it seems.

Com o objectivo de recuperar a atmosfera e a pulsão do film noir clássico, ou seja, do género em bruto, e não das suas variações modernas, a produção do filme direcciona por agora os seus esforços na captação de financiamento para dar forma à história. O principal objectivo desta menção é sensibilizar os leitores para que, querendo contribuir com investimento, poderão e deverão fazê-lo consultando, para isso, a página oficial do facebook ou o artigo no seu blog.