Become part of a film production with A Shot at the Big Time - a film which will touch the world.

Nov. 27, 2011 - PRLog -- A Shot at the Big Time is a film based on the true story of my brother, Jimmy, who took his own life rather than fight in the Apartheid Border War, a war he didn't believe in.

I've launched a crowd-sourcing campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise production funds for this film after the conventional fund raising platforms didn't help me. This film is timeless, a film about the young men who gave up their lives to fight in a war they had no desire to fight. Every white boy in South Africa in the seventies, eighties and early nineties, was conscripted into military service. After three months of brutal basics they were spat out onto the border to kill their so-called enemy.

A Shot at the Big Time traces the life of my brother and one of his black friends who just wanted to play music. They had no interest in waging war against each other - they just wanted to be rock stars. Then Jimmy received his call up papers. Forced into the brutal regime of the military, with a sargeant who has it in for him, and after a fatal accident,  Jimmy has a mental breakdown. He's removed from service and placed in a mental home to recover. He just starts to find his feet again when the army drafts him again and sends him into armed combat on the Angolan border with the instruction to seek and destroy. His broken heart can't do this. So instead of fighting, he releases the bullets from his rifle, walks straight into the line of enemy fire, strumming his gun, like his beloved guitar.

This film has taken me nine years to write. Now I'm ready to put it on the big screen. A number of songs have been written by Jonathan Handley of the Radio Rats who was so moved by reading the script that he recorded songs you can see on the Indiegogo website.

We need funding! But we're not asking for money for nothing. Even $10 will get you co-producer's credit and $100 gets you a copy of the novel, Width of a Thread, which is based on the screenplay, and a Radio Rats CD.

$1000 gets you all of the above, plus a chance to appear in the film in a crowd scene as well as to send in your auditions for the roles. The main roles will be auditioned online.

See the Indiegogo site for details.

http://www.indiegogo.com/A-Shot-at-the-Big-Time?a=206977&...

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I've run my production company for the past 10 years. I sourced funding from the National Arts Council to produce six of plays, wrote the international feature film, White Lion and supervise-produced 2 short films.
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