SIN & ILLY, feature length

The 18-year-old SIN wants to get "clean" on her own after a heroin addiction relapse. She wins over her friend ILLY with the idea of escaping to an island in the south to start a drug free life. To get the passport for the flight, they visit Illy's mother. The detour reveals the social and character differences between the two and makes her plan a failure. Sin realizes that her way out of addiction is to go it alone.

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Funding period

4/30/13 - 7/30/13

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Minimum amount (Start level): €

15,000 €

City

Frankfurt am Main

What is this project all about?

SIN & ILLY is a coming-of-age feature film and tells the story of the heroin addict girls SIN and ILLY in today's drug scene of Frankfurt am Main, who want to get "clean" again under their own steam and by going through "cold turkey".

The film is based on a true story, which happened in 1990 in Frankfurt am Main. The authentic narrative of SIN & ILLY wants to do away with generalizing stigma and encourage more optimistic and current perspectives for opting out of drug addiction.

What is the project goal and who is the project for?

The target audience of the film is to be a socially committed cinema audience that is interested in current developments and upheavals in our society.

Our young protagonist SIN experiences elementary conflicts through which she grows in character and emotionally. We want to reach an audience that can be inspired by interpersonal stories and individual problems and always look for new ways to meet people, especially in their crises.

SIN & ILLY is be evaluated upon completion on the international film festival market and then in the cinema and on television. A collaboration with a theatrical and DVD / BluRay sales is sought. We also want to make the film available for preventive and educative purposes in youth work.

Why would you support this project?

In the artistic densified form of a feature film SIN & ILLY faces, in a personal and authentic way, the current drug abuse and addiction of young people avoiding distortion thanks to artistic compromises to be met with TV producers or large, commercially oriented funding agencies. To save our independence and intransigence in the implementation, we are looking for a possible independent, risk-taking and cultural funding person, who sees it as a social necessity and an opportunity to make a difference in our society.

How will we use the money if the project is successfully funded?

To realize the film SIN & ILLY with the greatest artistic freedom and authenticity, we consciously choose a low budget. The sum of 15,000 euros covers a significant part of the financing, which is the least our feature film needs for the shooting and will emphasize our independence. Parallell we are applying for production support from various cultural film funding agencies in Germany and Austria, but we will realize the film also without further fundings from those agencies.

When we get the required amount - and with your help we will, we will begin in October 2013 with the filming of the movie. We are currently working on pre-production and development of the film. Overall, we expect about 25 days of shooting.

For the implementation of the film project we need the money for such items as:
Casting, location rent
Film equipment (camera, lighting, etc.)
travel expenses
Accommodation and food for the crew (locations: Frankfurt, Kahl am Main, Berlin)
post-production
and perhaps together with your help, there will even be a little to pay for the crew and the actors who work for the time without salary.

The unconditional commitment and passion of our entire team gives us hope that through your donations and other public funding we can find a budget that allows us to realize the film SIN & ILLY in an independent and uncompromising manner.

Who are the people behind the project?

Following the photos in the gallery above, from left to right:

Author & Director: Maria Hengge
www.thelastbus.de
Maria Hengge studied acting from 1994-98 at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and from 2000-05 she was employed as Member at the Vienna Burgtheater. Since then she has worked as a freelance actress and director in film and theater. In 2005 she graduated as a guest at the HFF Konrad Wolf, Babelsberg in scriptwriting and film aesthetics and in 2008 completed her first short film THE LAST BUS, where she was responsible for screenplay, direction and production. Funded by the Vienna City Culture and the Goethe Institute of Portugal, THE LAST BUS was presented at 30 international film festivals and was awarded in 2009 with the title of "valuable" of the Film Review Board in Wiesbaden. The Last Bus is distributed by the Interfilm Berlin Management GmbH. (www.thelastbus.de)
In 2009 Maria Hengge received a script funding (5,000-euro) for her first feature length SIN & ILLY from the Austrian Ministry for Education, Arts and culture and development funding (5,000, - €) from the Vienna City Culture.

Cinematographer & Co-Producer: Peter Roehsler
www.nanookfilm.com
Peter Roehsler studied image technology (camera) from 1969-75 at the University for Music and Performing Arts / Film and TV department in Vienna. From 1976-78 he installed and produced a newsreel cinema in the Republic of Kenya and founded his own film production company in Vienna. Until the early 90s, he was mainly in documentary, then began to concentrate on the Independent - Feature sector.

Assistant Director: Silvia Pernegger
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1228588/
Silvia Pernegger has worked in numerous short films and feature films as assistant director
and wrote the screenplay ELISA'S DISAPPEARANCE for her first feature length which she´s developing.

Music: Philipp Quehenberger
http://www.myspace.com/philippquehenberger
Philipp Quehenberger is one of the most professional musicians in the Austrian scene. Formed at the Innsbruck Conservatory there is hardly a genre that he was not discovered for himself. Hardcore, Metal, jazz and electronica he rises to his playground at the keyboard. For Franz West, he produced a remix, together with Cheap-chief Patrick Pulsinger he was responsible for the soundtrack to the film by Michael Glawogger SLUGS. Philipp Quehenberger profiled since 2001 with his solo work primarily in public appearances and likes to improvise. In 2007, he realized his first album, "Phantom In Paradise" and in 2009 his second Lato entitled "Hazard" in the Austrian avant-garde label.

Producer: Uwe Kamitz, Kamitz Filmproduktion Berlin
http://www.crew-united.com/?show=memberdetail&ID=37771
Uwe Kamitz graduated after studying theater, film and television studies in Bochum. He trained as a video producer at Media House dinner. A freelance producer of several award-winning short films, he produced for ZDF little teleplay the feature "Trust.Wohltat".

Costume: Hannah Landes
Set Sound: Luca Winkler, Florian Sailer
Editing: Susanne Eppensteiner
Sound Design & Mix: Carlo Pelikan
Art Design: Claudia Prommegger
English Translation: Sanna Akehurst
Co-Production: abadon production, Nanookfilm Wien,
Goldhamster Film Frankfurt am Main, Robert Hertel & Hannes Weiß
http://www.goldhamsterfilm.de

supported by
bm:ukk http://www.bmukk.gv.at
Stadt Wien Kultur http://www.wien.gv.at/amtshelfer/kultur/kulturabteilung/foerderungen/film.html

SIN & ILLY team