Apocalypso Filmz

Apocalypso Filmz is a local production company based just outside Helston. We have been in business for 4 years as a "fine art" film company.

What this means is that I, the company director, decided to pursue creative goals, rather than making money. This has meant that whilst we have been unable to expand as rapidly as I would have liked, we have remained fiercely independent and this has enabled me to attract the creatives I value and also hang o­nto my own sense of individualism. In fact the difficulties we have experienced have to a large extent defined our company style and I feel sure that we fall well within the remit of what I perceive to be Cornwall's filmic hopes for the future.

Since establishing ourselves as a production base we have achieved completion o­n a number of projects, as well as building a sizeable archive of live "performance art". Utilizing local folk whenever possible, hiring in outside specialists to instruct and "give back" their time and experience whenever possible.

Our titles include:

Life & Death in Soweto

60mins BBC Storyville 16mm ( a sterilized version of events leading up to the collapse of Grand Apartheid in South Africa)

Boz Loan- Selling the wind

30mins DVCAM documentary for Dance Agency Cornwall

Andout

15mins shot super16mm for UK arts council ( accepted into 9 international film festivals )

Etain

15mins DVCAM an experimental piece made in collaboration with David Greeves' HYBRID dance troupe

Everstrong- Hello Again

4mins DVCAM a classic music video directed and co-produced with 3S films for Cornish Blue.

In addition I am working o­n the cut of a long form documentary about Hybrid's work all over the country. An insiders view into the mad world that is "performance art"... it promises to be a blinder. In addition I am presently seeking to raise development capital to produce Emerald,
a twenty minute short to be shot locally. An excellent script, "Emerald" will be this director's first adventure into sync sound dramatic fiction film and is the next step towards my main goal, longer and more ambitious pieces of dramatic film.

Our companies strengths lie in my film making abilities across the board. The fact that I am completely independent and have worked in forty countries over a twenty year period within the propaganda sector of the American media, in conjunction with my first hand experience of discrepancies within our own collective "media history" means that I have no wish
to be a "part~" of the great British media... which to my mind is in a state of complete disarray in any case.

Anyway... we have just finished up the "Everstrong" music vid and it's looking great. How to turn a £6000 budget into £160,000. What couldn't we do with a real budget.

We have our own cameras, film lighting truck, grip and post production thru to broadcast. What we lack is a connected and visionary producer, someone capable of negotiating international distribution / development deals, someone who shares the view that this country is totally screwed but is not too weak, dumb or compromised to say so with a sense of humour.

Cool. So, if you think you can help in any way please... we could sure use some.

Duncan Sim ( misdirector: Apocalypso films)
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