Real Artists
San Francisco, California | Film Short
Sci-Fi, Thriller
Real Artists' director committed to elevating representation with this sci-fi short about art, artificial intelligence and the future of film that features a 75% female crew and a cast-crew that's 50% people of color.
Real Artists
San Francisco, California | Film Short
Sci-Fi, Thriller
2 Campaigns | California, United States
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Real Artists' director committed to elevating representation with this sci-fi short about art, artificial intelligence and the future of film that features a 75% female crew and a cast-crew that's 50% people of color.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
The Story
ABOUT THE FILM
What would you give up to become a 'real artist'?
Sophia, a young animator is offered what should be her dream job. But when she discovers the truth of the modern "creative" process, she must make a hard choice about her passion for film. Set in an unsettling tomorrow, REAL ARTISTS, is the new sci-fi short film from award-winning director/screenwriter Cameo Wood (DUKHA IN SUMMER) and based on the short story by Hugo/Nebula/World Fantasy winning author Ken Liu (THE GRACE OF KINGS) and stars renowned actress Tamlyn Tomita (FOUR ROOMS, JOY LUCK CLUB, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW) and marks the debut of Tiffany Hines (BONES) in a sci-fi indie role.
We just released our trailer:
Help us bring this story to life. We need 1000 followers on Seed&Spark in order to be eligible for distribution on Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, and Amazon - If we get 1000 followers, we also get a grant of filmmaking products and services worth $8,500. Both of those things are huge and would help us get the film in front of more fans. So, check out the incentives and wishlist pages, contribute monetarily, spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram (use #RealArtistsFilm), blogs, and encourage friends to make this project a reality!
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Sophia & Palladon discuss potential employment at Semaphore
Why This Story?
We felt it was the right time to take a hard look at the issues surrounding the future of work, filmmaking, and what it may be like to collaborate with an AI. Right now, biometric data is used for neuromarketing in many different contexts. Film plots are influenced by how test audiences respond during key points in the film.
We're envisioning a near future when its more efficient to have an artificial intelligence create a film and test it on a human audience. Where 'taste' is not yet captured by code and still has to be measured by a human. This story is ultimately a reaction to what it means to be human and what the future of quantifiable filmmaking looks like. Through science-fiction, we focus on rapidly-approaching question of ethics in neuromarketing, the power of corporations to craft products in response to our biometric responses, and how these concepts connect. We're also telling a story about a young woman's dream job, and her heroine that tries to guide her toward the future of storytelling.
Tracking - coming to an interview near you!
BASED ON THE SHORT STORY BY KEN LIU
Our director, Cameo Wood, read Ken Liu's short story Real Artists on a plane in 2012 and was so inspired by the tale, she emailed him from 10,000 feet to ask him if we could option the rights- and so the journey of Real Artists began. Cameo also wrote the screenplay adaptation of Ken's story which has since won awards at international film festivals in London, Toronto, and the USA. We're excited to build upon the short story's critical acclaim and expand the world of REAL ARTISTS. The short story was originally commissioned by MIT's Technology Review as a collection of short sci-fi stories called TRSF in 2011 and has been performed by Ann Leckie for Escape Pod (listen), and has been translated into Dutch in De Ingenieur, and into Japanese for はるこん／Hal-Con 2017. Now we want this story to reach its fullest potential and bring it to a wider audience
Post Production
Real Artists is already in the can. The film was shot on 35mm kodak film on a Panavision camera, and it looks gorgeous. Shot on location at the breathtaking Chabot Space & Science Center, the location couldn't have been more perfect as the ultra-modern Semaphore Studios. Our film has an original soundtrack by accomplished composer, Meredith Yayanos of The Parlour Trick - featuring Stripmall Architecture's Ryan Coseboom.
Our Goal
We've already shot the film, and now we're in the final weeks of editing, VFX, coloring, sound design, and music production. We realize that it will cost about $20,000 to finish the film. We are asking for you to help us reach that goal. That money goes to pay professionals who will be editing the film, editing the sound, animating the visual effects, designing the display for the artificial intelligence, coloring the film, writing and producing the music - all of which we need to make a great looking and sounding film. Check out our WishList to look at the budget we're trying to fulfill.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Seed & Spark Distribution
Costs $1,000
Seed&Spark's distribution pipeline to over 100M homes, lets us activate and monetize audiences in a strategic and cost-effective way.
Composer
Costs $1,500
Meredith Yayanos (The Parlour Trick) is a world renowned musician - and is creating the soundtrack for Real Artists!
Visual Effects Animator
Costs $7,000
Our visual effects animator will be responsible for bringing one of our lead characters - an AI - to life!
Production Artist
Costs $2,000
Our production artist, Matt Evans, is bringing our AI to life with astonishing original art and UI design.
Sound Editor
Costs $2,500
What is in front of the camera is important - but what you hear is equally so. We have a great sound editor to sculpt the soundscapes.
Colorist
Costs $2,000
We shot on 35mm film - we want to make sure we're getting the best look possible from our celluloid.
Editor
Costs $2,000
Our editor is a Real Artist - and we will craft the film to be as close as 10 minutes as possible - that's a lot of story in a short time!
G-Raid with Thunderbolt
Costs $900
We need a big, redundant hard drive to edit our film, and G-Technology makes the best!
DCP Creation
Costs $500
Digital Cinema Package ( DCPs ) for theatrical exhibition. We'll be using Simple DCP for this service!
Share this update!
About This Team
A Film Made by Women and PoC about the Future
We're secured a diverse and talented cast and crew - of which 75% are women and 50% are people of color.
CAST
Actress Tamlyn Tomita
Tamlyn Tomita as Noshiko Yukimura in TEEN WOLF
Tamlyn Tomita, Actor, made her screen debut in THE KARATE KID, PART II, and continued to create rich and engrosing characters in feature films such as COME SEE THE PARADISE opposite Dennis Quaid, the film adaptation of Amy Tan's bestselling novel THE JOY LUCK CLUB, her distinguished work in PICTURE BRIDE (Audience Award winner, 1995 Sundance Film Festival), and FOUR ROOMS opposite Antonio Banderas. She can currently been seen playing Noshiko Yukimura in TEEN WOLF on MTV, an autumn 2016 on EPIX in the new series BERLIN STATION with Richard Artimage.
Actress Tiffany Hines
Tiffany Hines as Jaden in NIKITA
REAL ARTISTS also showcases the work of Tiffany Hines, Actress, known for her memorable television roles as Birdie Scott on BEYOND THE BREAK, Michelle Welton on BONES, Didi Miller on DEVIOUS MAIDS, Jaden on NIKITA, and Kelly Baptiste on DAMIEN. She recently portrayed Tamar Braxton on TONI BRAXTON: UNBREAK MY HEART on the Lifetime Channel.
CREW
We are so thankful to have attracted such an amazing group of passionate filmmakers:
Cameo Wood, Director/Screenwriter, is a San Francisco based filmmaker began honing her craft in highschool while working as an editor and director on the first syndicated high school television show in 1995. She began her film education when she was 12 and worked full time at the family video store. Later, she joined the San Francisco filmmaker cooperative Scary Cow, and assisted other filmmakers in the development of their own films (SLASHED: TALES OF FORBIDDEN LUST, PRESSURE, LIT, THE SECRET GUIDE TO ALTERNATIVE BEIJING). In 2013 Cameo made a solo venture into the wild outback of Northern Mongolia where she made her first short documentary, DUKHA IN SUMMER, which captured a day in the life of a group of nomadic reindeer herders. The finished film debuted at the St. Louis Film Festival, and had a successful festival run in over 30 film festivals throughout the world. Academically she has studied medical neuroscience and artificial intelligence, and when she read Real Artists, she realized she was uniquely situated to create this film as a modern hard science fiction tale. This is her narrative directorial debut.
Ryon Lane, Executive Producer & Producer, has worked in film, TV and commercial production for over a decade as an EP & Producer of high-concept, festival-bound feature-length and short independent films, virtual reality (VR) and branded commercial content. He previously worked in Business Affairs at Lionsgate and Intermedia Film, and also reviewed content and wrote literary coverage for Creative Artists Agency (CAA).
Alexa Fraser-Herron, Producer, is a writer, director, and producer based out of San Francisco. Originally lured to the city to pursue fine art at the San Francisco Art Institute, Alexa later began channeling her myriad interests into film. Her work includes EAT, PRAY, WHATEVER, ALONE FOREVER, the experimental horror short 7 MINUTES IN HELL, PETE & VERONICA, and MINI SUPREME. Alexa is the production manager for Peaches Christ, runs Bay Area-based film collective Scary Cow Productions, and lectures on various aspects of creative development and film production.
Kimberly Culotta, Director of Photography, is a tri-coastal cinematographer, splitting her time between Los Angeles, New York and New Orleans. Collaborating with auteurs to deliver images that enrich narratives is her primary goal. She brings a back-ground as a gaffer and a painter to the craft of motion picture photography. She has served as a DP on over 30 film projects, many of which have competed at prestigious international film festivals.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
The Story
ABOUT THE FILM
What would you give up to become a 'real artist'?
Sophia, a young animator is offered what should be her dream job. But when she discovers the truth of the modern "creative" process, she must make a hard choice about her passion for film. Set in an unsettling tomorrow, REAL ARTISTS, is the new sci-fi short film from award-winning director/screenwriter Cameo Wood (DUKHA IN SUMMER) and based on the short story by Hugo/Nebula/World Fantasy winning author Ken Liu (THE GRACE OF KINGS) and stars renowned actress Tamlyn Tomita (FOUR ROOMS, JOY LUCK CLUB, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW) and marks the debut of Tiffany Hines (BONES) in a sci-fi indie role.
We just released our trailer:
Help us bring this story to life. We need 1000 followers on Seed&Spark in order to be eligible for distribution on Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, and Amazon - If we get 1000 followers, we also get a grant of filmmaking products and services worth $8,500. Both of those things are huge and would help us get the film in front of more fans. So, check out the incentives and wishlist pages, contribute monetarily, spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram (use #RealArtistsFilm), blogs, and encourage friends to make this project a reality!
Sophia & Palladon discuss potential employment at Semaphore
Why This Story?
We felt it was the right time to take a hard look at the issues surrounding the future of work, filmmaking, and what it may be like to collaborate with an AI. Right now, biometric data is used for neuromarketing in many different contexts. Film plots are influenced by how test audiences respond during key points in the film.
We're envisioning a near future when its more efficient to have an artificial intelligence create a film and test it on a human audience. Where 'taste' is not yet captured by code and still has to be measured by a human. This story is ultimately a reaction to what it means to be human and what the future of quantifiable filmmaking looks like. Through science-fiction, we focus on rapidly-approaching question of ethics in neuromarketing, the power of corporations to craft products in response to our biometric responses, and how these concepts connect. We're also telling a story about a young woman's dream job, and her heroine that tries to guide her toward the future of storytelling.
Tracking - coming to an interview near you!
BASED ON THE SHORT STORY BY KEN LIU
Our director, Cameo Wood, read Ken Liu's short story Real Artists on a plane in 2012 and was so inspired by the tale, she emailed him from 10,000 feet to ask him if we could option the rights- and so the journey of Real Artists began. Cameo also wrote the screenplay adaptation of Ken's story which has since won awards at international film festivals in London, Toronto, and the USA. We're excited to build upon the short story's critical acclaim and expand the world of REAL ARTISTS. The short story was originally commissioned by MIT's Technology Review as a collection of short sci-fi stories called TRSF in 2011 and has been performed by Ann Leckie for Escape Pod (listen), and has been translated into Dutch in De Ingenieur, and into Japanese for はるこん／Hal-Con 2017. Now we want this story to reach its fullest potential and bring it to a wider audience
Post Production
Real Artists is already in the can. The film was shot on 35mm kodak film on a Panavision camera, and it looks gorgeous. Shot on location at the breathtaking Chabot Space & Science Center, the location couldn't have been more perfect as the ultra-modern Semaphore Studios. Our film has an original soundtrack by accomplished composer, Meredith Yayanos of The Parlour Trick - featuring Stripmall Architecture's Ryan Coseboom.
Our Goal
We've already shot the film, and now we're in the final weeks of editing, VFX, coloring, sound design, and music production. We realize that it will cost about $20,000 to finish the film. We are asking for you to help us reach that goal. That money goes to pay professionals who will be editing the film, editing the sound, animating the visual effects, designing the display for the artificial intelligence, coloring the film, writing and producing the music - all of which we need to make a great looking and sounding film. Check out our WishList to look at the budget we're trying to fulfill.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Seed & Spark Distribution
Costs $1,000
Seed&Spark's distribution pipeline to over 100M homes, lets us activate and monetize audiences in a strategic and cost-effective way.
Composer
Costs $1,500
Meredith Yayanos (The Parlour Trick) is a world renowned musician - and is creating the soundtrack for Real Artists!
Visual Effects Animator
Costs $7,000
Our visual effects animator will be responsible for bringing one of our lead characters - an AI - to life!
Production Artist
Costs $2,000
Our production artist, Matt Evans, is bringing our AI to life with astonishing original art and UI design.
Sound Editor
Costs $2,500
What is in front of the camera is important - but what you hear is equally so. We have a great sound editor to sculpt the soundscapes.
Colorist
Costs $2,000
We shot on 35mm film - we want to make sure we're getting the best look possible from our celluloid.
Editor
Costs $2,000
Our editor is a Real Artist - and we will craft the film to be as close as 10 minutes as possible - that's a lot of story in a short time!
G-Raid with Thunderbolt
Costs $900
We need a big, redundant hard drive to edit our film, and G-Technology makes the best!
DCP Creation
Costs $500
Digital Cinema Package ( DCPs ) for theatrical exhibition. We'll be using Simple DCP for this service!
Share this update!
About This Team
A Film Made by Women and PoC about the Future
We're secured a diverse and talented cast and crew - of which 75% are women and 50% are people of color.
CAST
Actress Tamlyn Tomita
Tamlyn Tomita as Noshiko Yukimura in TEEN WOLF
Tamlyn Tomita, Actor, made her screen debut in THE KARATE KID, PART II, and continued to create rich and engrosing characters in feature films such as COME SEE THE PARADISE opposite Dennis Quaid, the film adaptation of Amy Tan's bestselling novel THE JOY LUCK CLUB, her distinguished work in PICTURE BRIDE (Audience Award winner, 1995 Sundance Film Festival), and FOUR ROOMS opposite Antonio Banderas. She can currently been seen playing Noshiko Yukimura in TEEN WOLF on MTV, an autumn 2016 on EPIX in the new series BERLIN STATION with Richard Artimage.
Actress Tiffany Hines
Tiffany Hines as Jaden in NIKITA
REAL ARTISTS also showcases the work of Tiffany Hines, Actress, known for her memorable television roles as Birdie Scott on BEYOND THE BREAK, Michelle Welton on BONES, Didi Miller on DEVIOUS MAIDS, Jaden on NIKITA, and Kelly Baptiste on DAMIEN. She recently portrayed Tamar Braxton on TONI BRAXTON: UNBREAK MY HEART on the Lifetime Channel.
CREW
We are so thankful to have attracted such an amazing group of passionate filmmakers:
Cameo Wood, Director/Screenwriter, is a San Francisco based filmmaker began honing her craft in highschool while working as an editor and director on the first syndicated high school television show in 1995. She began her film education when she was 12 and worked full time at the family video store. Later, she joined the San Francisco filmmaker cooperative Scary Cow, and assisted other filmmakers in the development of their own films (SLASHED: TALES OF FORBIDDEN LUST, PRESSURE, LIT, THE SECRET GUIDE TO ALTERNATIVE BEIJING). In 2013 Cameo made a solo venture into the wild outback of Northern Mongolia where she made her first short documentary, DUKHA IN SUMMER, which captured a day in the life of a group of nomadic reindeer herders. The finished film debuted at the St. Louis Film Festival, and had a successful festival run in over 30 film festivals throughout the world. Academically she has studied medical neuroscience and artificial intelligence, and when she read Real Artists, she realized she was uniquely situated to create this film as a modern hard science fiction tale. This is her narrative directorial debut.
Ryon Lane, Executive Producer & Producer, has worked in film, TV and commercial production for over a decade as an EP & Producer of high-concept, festival-bound feature-length and short independent films, virtual reality (VR) and branded commercial content. He previously worked in Business Affairs at Lionsgate and Intermedia Film, and also reviewed content and wrote literary coverage for Creative Artists Agency (CAA).
Alexa Fraser-Herron, Producer, is a writer, director, and producer based out of San Francisco. Originally lured to the city to pursue fine art at the San Francisco Art Institute, Alexa later began channeling her myriad interests into film. Her work includes EAT, PRAY, WHATEVER, ALONE FOREVER, the experimental horror short 7 MINUTES IN HELL, PETE & VERONICA, and MINI SUPREME. Alexa is the production manager for Peaches Christ, runs Bay Area-based film collective Scary Cow Productions, and lectures on various aspects of creative development and film production.
Kimberly Culotta, Director of Photography, is a tri-coastal cinematographer, splitting her time between Los Angeles, New York and New Orleans. Collaborating with auteurs to deliver images that enrich narratives is her primary goal. She brings a back-ground as a gaffer and a painter to the craft of motion picture photography. She has served as a DP on over 30 film projects, many of which have competed at prestigious international film festivals.