We do tend to post a kickstarter project a week or every other week. What can I say I’m all about supporting independent film making. The zombie genre wouldn’t be where it was today without it. So when we see a kickstarter for a film that we’ve reviewed the short that inspired it we’re happy to share it with you. It has an ambition goal to meet in the next 48 days and hopefully it will be able to pull it off as I’d love to see a full version of the short that we loved to watch.
Here’s the breakdown from the Kickstarter itself!
Welcome to Year Zero is a zombie noir animated feature film about an ill-paired infected loner and orphaned girl forced to maneuver the hostile streets of NYC. A living and breathing graphic novel with striking visuals and sardonic tone, WTYZ is a unique apocalyptic spin on surviving the urban jungle, as well as humanity’s own carnivorous nature, and the ever-pervading class injustices of society. (Story details coming with “updates”.)
The feature is set to take place shortly after the initial outbreak depicted in my celebrated indie animated short, Year Zero, which premiered at the 2011 Tribeca FIlm Festival.
I’ve been called a “veritable one-man show”*– I do take matters into my own hands. From writing the script, photographing the actors (myself included), digitally illustrating and animating each frame, to recording and mixing dialogue and sound effects, composing the score**, editing, promoting and all of the others jobs required to produce a movie.
This means no waiting around for others to finish up their end, common with smaller film budgets, no creative sacrifices, just me going mad-scientist on the project until it’s reached my vision and my standards…then I have those standards raised further by a group of very honest friends, and possibly, now, YOU! (Check out the rewards panel.)
You can donate to the film’s progress on Year Zero’s Kickstarter.
