The Chapters

Chapter 1: Feathers and Boom (directed by Chris Chitaroni) – March, April 2013

The Concept

The Treepot Cliffhanger is a collaborative feature film project. Six filmmakers will each make a chapter of a story over a one year period.  Each chapter will be developed over 2 months starting in March 2013.  So March-April will be slot 1, May-June will be slot 2 and so on.  The twist is that each chapter follows from the ending or cliffhanger of the previous chapter.

The Six Filmmakers

Here are the auditions from our six filmmakers as chosen by our Judges (in no particular order).

Kristian Lariviere		Chris Chitaroni
Luca Fiore		Keith Wiggins
Caro Ibrahim		Derek Price

Follow the adventure

Stay plugged into the project, see what each of the filmmakers is up to, get information about casting calls, crew calls and more by following the #TreepotCliffhanger feature film via our Facebook page: http://facebook.com/TreepotCliffhanger

Guidelines

(1)  The maximum length per chapter is 15 minutes.

(2)  Filmmakers are not restricted to the same actors and locations as the previous chapter.

(3)  The films will be streamed on YouTube so they will be subject to YouTube’s Community Guidelines, Terms of Use and Copyright/Content Verification Program.  Filmmakers are required to secure all rights and releases for all components of their production.

(4)  Compilation of the chapters together to screen as a single feature film necessitates that all of the individual sections are non-ACTRA projects.

(5)  Filmmakers will have complete ownership over their chapter and will have complete creative control the caveat that they have to follow guidelines (1) – (4).

Any questions or clarifications, please email cliffhanger@treepotmedia.com.  There is also a pinned Q&A post here.

Filmmaker Selection

Filmmakers created two minute video auditions in which they talk about their passion for making films and demonstrate their ability to deliver projects.  The jury selected six filmmakers.

Jury

Six filmmakers were chosen by our three member jury.

	Adele Cardamone-Martel, Executive Producer, A&E New Program Development, CBC Television
	Jeff Hopper, host of CTV Ottawa Morning Live
	Jeremy Atherton, Coordinator/Professor, Algonquin College Television Broadcasting Program

Sponsors

Sponsorship packages for the various chapters vary depending on the time-slot chosen by each filmmaker.  Please note that these packages may contain items that are subject to availability and should be secured and scheduled in collaboration with the sponsor well in advance by each filmmaker.

Each of the six filmmakers will get a combination of equipment rental vouchers, post production facility rental vouchers and cash totalling between $775 and $900 to assist with the production of their chapter for a total of $5,150 towards the production of this feature film.  Thanks to our generous sponsors!

Collaborators

Students from Algonquin College’s Scriptwriting Program and members of the Writers’ Room have offered their assistance to filmmakers that are entering this challenge.  These two groups have also been involved with recent Digi60 Filmmaker’s Festival competitions and collaborated on several of the award-winning films in 2012 and 2013.  VideoEyes will be producing behind the scenes featurettes for each of the chapters.  Contact information and links provided below.

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Facebook: Link Twitter: @VideoEyes website: Link

Radio Interview

Here’s Treepot Media’s Jith Paul chatting with CBC’s Alan Neal (CBC’s All in a Day) about the project.

Distribution

Chapters will be released online as they are completed with the exception of the final chapter which will be shown along with the preceding chapters as a feature film presentation at a date and venue to be annouced after the completion of the project.