Amazing - we are 113% funded!

So our campaign finished at midnight Weds 12th with a total of £28,388!

We are SO indebted to all our backers, team and partners on this journey to make our monster movie...! This has been quite insane, and we are knackered, but we have also had an amazing time, not just with the DC team - Krent Able, Roxy Holman, Laura Kirby & Mike Chapman... 

...but also with all our lovely collaborators - Kite Base (Kendra Frost & Ayse Hassan), Tara Busch of I Speak Machine, Territory Studios & Dan Martin of 13 Finger FX.

We must also send big love to our supportive partners who got behind the project - big shout outs to VICE, Shooting People, Ben Blaine, Chris Blaine, Chris Baker, LOCO (Denise Hicks & Jonathan Wakeham), Stuart Wright at Britflicks, John Sanders, Gosh Comics, Orbital Comics, The Quietus, Festival Formula, Ed Wiles at FilmShorts, Thats A Wrap & Directors UK - thanks for being on the DC Crew with us...!!

Deep Clean hits the kickstarter homepage

We are very excited that our Deep Clean project has hit the Kickstarter homepage, and as of today we are 94% funded at £23,622 - lets bring this thing home with 36 hours to go!

Directors UK article PART 2: The Big Confidence Trick

Very honoured to have been asked to write this campaign diary for Directors UK, spelling out all the things we did, why, and how painful it all was...Part 2: The Big Confidence Trick, hits the Directors UK list today...read it and weep! CLICK HERE to read the full article...

We also hit £17k today - things are moving...

"the perfect package" at sheffield hallam uni

Had a great time speaking to the Sheffield Hallam Uni Filmmaking MA students about presenting projects, in a talk that has rather flatteringly been billed as The Perfect Package, hosted by man-about-town Colin Pons at Sheffield Hallam University. We go through pitching, materials, sizzle reels and concept trailers, festival strategy, look books, and end up with crowdfunding of course...video coming soon!

almost 50% funded in just 7 days!

£12,061 - we are almost 50% FUNDED in just 7 days. THANK YOU SO MUCH  to all our supporters. Please help us HIT £12.5k today...@krentable @mikepc9 #deepcleanfilm #supportindiefilm

directors Uk campaign diary article

"This is a great insight in how to
crowd fund a project."

"Filmmaking is hard enough and lonely enough anyway, without us all keeping strategies, secrets and hacks we have discovered to ourselves." Read the first instalment in Directors UK member Matt Harlock’s candid crowdfunding diary, as he sets up a Kickstarter campaign for his new supernatural horror short, "Deep Clean".
FULL ARTICLE at DIRECTORS UK HERE:

 

 

shooting people blog supports deep clean

Thrilled that we are featured in @blainebrothers Ben's SP blog today:
"This is me unashamedly instructing you to put some money into Deep Clean. 
Matt works tirelessly to support other filmmakers, not least through his increasingly essential organisation No Direction Home which brings filmmakers together. On every level he deserves the support of his fellow filmmakers."
Ben Blaine, SHOOTING PEOPLE BLOG

Woah - £10K in just 3 days, thank you!

So flip me, we've been working really hard through this goddamn heatwave, and here's just SOME of the media posts we've been flipping out to the world over the last 3 days to grab your attention (and hopefully, money, ha)... enjoy. Boom!

Britflicks podcast goes live!

Huge thanks to our friends at Britflicks.com and Nerdly. We spoke with 'uber-journo-about-town' Stuart Wright (@leytonrocks) about Ink, Cocks, our exciting new Kickstarter project Deep Clean, and drilled down into some of the intracacies of working with the mystery wrapped inside the enigma that is @Krentable - man, myth, monster in tight hot pants...listen below...

The Quietus launches Ink, Cocks!

Really pleased that our friends at The Quietus (big up Paddy Clarke & 'CEO with the most' John Doran) are now showing the full Ink, Cocks & Rock'n'Roll film - check it out here: The Quietus Launch Ink, Cocks

Ink, Cocks at Shorts on Tap, 93 Feet East

We were excited to show Ink, Cocks & Rock'n'Roll at the excellent Shorts on Tap at 93 Feet East, where we saw a bunch of interesting docs and screened 'the opus' to the brave souls who braved the screening on the hottest day of the year! Sweaty fo sho! 

Kickstarter launch...Hulk smash!

The Avengers assembled - here's to our awesome team - the unsurpassable Katy Driscoll, Laura Kirby (Buzz Queen), Steve/Krent Able, Mike 'Horror' Chapman and Roxy "get it done' Holman...we're gonna bring this home, I swears ya! 

Vice interview for ink, Cocks online release

Spoke with Jamie Clifton, VICE, about all things Ink, Krent & Deep Clean today - article link is here: VICE article "Krent Able is one of the UK's most hilarious, vicious, unsettling illustrators. He also does't exist" Jamie Clifton. Hmmm...looks like he nailed it...

"Krent – the acerbic, sharp-eared menace – is the alter-ego of Steve Martin, the London-based artist whose brilliant work we've published on VICE numerous times. In fact, our website is where director Matt Harlock – of American: The Bill Hicks Story – first came across his illustrations, sparking a relationship that would eventually lead to Ink, Cocks & Rock 'n' Roll, a documentary that we're premiering on vice.com today."

The Quietus cover Ink Cocks release

Those lovely chaps at the Quietus dropped our trailer today, and wrote some nice words too! Check them out here...http://thequietus.com/articles/22636-watch-trailer-for-new-krent-able-film-launching-22-june

Steve Martin, better known by his demonic alias Krent Able, will be launching his new film Ink, Cocks & Rock'n'Roll with tQ.

The film celebrates Martin’s morbid artwork and the alter-ego that creates it, an interesting contrast when in reality Martin is much more personable than one would expect.

Having done the tour artwork for Kendra Frost and Savages’ Ayşe Hassan, we interviewed Martin, Frost and Hassan about his artwork, music, cocks and finding the limit in provocative art. As the artist known for drawing wolf-like self-portraits and perverted Nick Caves, Martin defends “I’m not pushing myself, I’m just winding people up.”

Ink, Cocks & Rock’n’Roll will launch on tQ on June 22, you can watch a trailer above, and check back in here next week to watch the whole thing.

Do meet your heroes, they rule...

 

That thing where you meet one of your absolute film heroes, and he gives you a fortune cookie...unreal. @waltermurch created some of THE most memorable moments of my film life. He carries a coffee can full of philosophical film quotes that he gives out - mine was from Erik Satie #apocalypsenow #theconversation  @krentable #deepcleanfilm #stayfrosty

Deep Clean Crew - the (cheap) avengers assemble!

First meeting of the Deep Clean Crew @PicturehouseCentral for a brainstorm, beer and development of the key strategic component of the campaign - stupid nicknames and catch phrases. So far, 'The Wilf', 'The Buzz Queen' and "You spoiled my parteee!" are winning...@kidkirby @roxy_holman, @minicollett, @krentable happy days, bring on June 20th mofos!