Jan 1st, 2011 – A new start… A new look…

 

First of all, lets just get it out of the way, HAPPY NEW YEAR’S & YESSSS, I am bald… bald as the day I was born, except 3 times as ugly… or 4 times depending on who you ask…

I didn’t start the day bald, in fact, until around 7pm  I had a very healthy amount of hair on my head & on my face, but the love of my life that is Kt, decided it was time for me to have a trim, so she excitedly got the clippers out & made the rookie mistake of forgetting to put on the safety guard, well, the rest is HISTORY & now I start the new year with a new look… & it’s damned cold up top…

anyway… to anyone thats new, my name is AD LANE & I am the founder of the INDYWOOD MOVIE PROJECT, which to cut  a long story short is me using the internet to FAN FUND my EPIC horror film trilogy called ‘INVASION OF THE NOT QUITE DEAD’.

and to cut the story even shorter…

I began work on my debut feature film towards the end of 2006 during my final year of university at the INTERNATIONAL FILM SCHOOL OF WALES and then for the next 2 and a half years I began a STUBBORN attempt at raising my films budget independently using just the internet, I didn’t want to use a lottery based funding body or a group of investors who would attempt to influence the vision of my movie & I tried everything, but unfortunately as luck would have it, I failed every time… but the one thing to remember was, I never gave up, LUCKILY, and in MAY 2009 I came up with a unique idea of selling pre-order producer packages, it seemed like a no brainer due to building up such a huge fan base during the project’s first couple of years…

So now, JAN 1st 2011, some 4 years later… here I am, still working FULL TIME & never once giving up on my life’s dream, and thanks to the incredible amount of fan support on TWITTER, I am now just months away from shooting the INTRO to ‘INVASION’ which will be filmed on location in Bulgaria… this is the EPIC 1978 intro that is very ambitious, involving explosions & yes REAL EXPLOSIONS, there won’t be any CGI gore or fire in ‘INVASION’ that is my number one pet hate with horror & action movies of today, nothing looks real any more, but before I begin a rant, I will stop & save it for another BLOG… but rest assured ‘INVASION’ is going OLD SCHOOL, back to a time when movies looked REAL… that’s one reason that horror films of the 70′s & 80′s remain FAN FAVOURITES more so than what is being produced in the last few years…

So this first blog is just to say HAPPY NEW YEAR & a HUGE THANK YOU to the 823 producers (from 20 different countries) that have so far donated to our project… so far I’ve managed to raise over £34,000 from just FAN support alone, making this film a truly FAN FUNDED horror movie…

Whilst I update the INDYWOOD MOVIE PROJECT site you can see all our pre-order producer packages HERE: it would be amazing if you could join our project & help us make this be the best film you guys deserve it to be…

In other news, I’ll be doing an 85 HOUR non stop TWITTER FILM FUNDRAISING MARATHON to raise additional funds for the INTRO shoot, on FEB 1st 2011… I already hold the world record at 80 HOURS which I completed in November 2010…

If you haven’t already pls FOLLOW us on TWITTER – FACEBOOK & if you support my quest for pure independence then please join our MAILING LIST & you will be entered into a FREE prize draw…

If you have made it to this point of the blog, then remember this, NEVER give up on a dream, if you have one, then please GO FOR IT, lets make 2011 our year, this is the year of the DREAMER… this is the year we MAKE OUR DREAMS COME TO LIFE…

AD LANE

writer/producer/director

‘INVASION OF THE NOT QUITE DEAD’

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