Seek to generate funds to complete unfinished Orson tape … – Prensa Latina

May 7, 2015, 15:49 Los Angeles, May 7 (PL) Several directors of cinema, as the producer Frank Marshall and director Peter Bogdanovich, today launched a call for fundraising and finish an unfinished film by legendary filmmaker Orson Welles.

 The initiative is known as “crowdfunding” (collection of masses) and aims to achieve the conclusion of the film The other side of the wind through the Internet, where Indiegogo website was created and which already support directors like JJ Abrams, Clint Eastwood, Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach Steven Soderbergh, among others.

In his first 12 hours in air Indiegogo had already raised about $ 25,000 and hope to reach a high figure within 40 days complete the post-production of the original film of 1970 and expected to premiere this year, coinciding with the centenary of the birth of Welles.

The taxpayer contributions range from a minimum of 10 to a ceiling of 25 000 dollars and change various hooks and a DVD copy of the film, a book of previously unpublished photographs, posters, tickets for the world premiere, among other marketing tools.

The story of the unfinished tape offered, He shot between 1970 and 1976, it focuses on a director whose success has diminished after moving to Europe and decided to return to Hollywood to relaunch his career, and the original cast Bogdanovich, Dennis Hopper, Lillie Palmer and Oja Kodar appear.

mgt / deg