New and old worlds will collide at the Web Summit as Director Nick Ryan will launch a crowd funding campaign on Indiegogo for his latest film on the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. This will happen in front of an audience of 20,000 people at the Web Summit on Tuesday 4th of November where founder of Indiegogo Danae Ringelmann will discuss crowd funding in films with Nick Ryan.
Indiegogo is a fantastic company that was founded in 2008, that helps people around the world to fund what really matters to them. As the largest crowd funding platform, campaigns have been launched around the world with millions of dollars being distributed every week. More information on their work can be found on their website www.indiegogo.com and on their social media at http://www.twitter.com/indiegogo and www.facebook.com/indiegogo.
The funds that are raised through this campaign will go towards the script and visual concept development to bring the movie to life on screen.
The campaign is due to go live this weekend ( Saturday November 1 ) and contributors of the feature will be entitled to certain perks including vintage stamps, personalised newspapers, medals and limited edition copies of storyboards for the movie.
Web Summit, founded in 2010, is Europe’s largest festival of ideas and has been dubbed “Davos for geeks.” Founded in 2010, the event has grown exponentially. This year, the Web Summit will host more than 20,000 attendees and guests in Dublin on November 4th– 6th. Over 1,100 journalists will attend the event from more than 70 countries.
Speakers confirmed for Web Summit 2014 include Peter Thiel, co-founder of Paypal and Palantir as well as the first investor in Facebook, Drew Houston, founder of Dropbox, Padmasree Warrior, CTSO of Cisco, John Sculley, former CEO of Apple, Brendan Iribe CEO of Oculus and Eva Longoria of the Eva Longoria Foundation. Over 600 speakers and some 20,000 attendees will gather in Dublin for this year’s Web Summit, the largest tech event in Europe.
Six Days of the Rising will be an explosive and gripping account of an epochal moment in history and the human cost of insurrection in a time of great change. The Easter Rising was a pivotal moment in world history, where a six day war was fought skilfully by a group of rebels against 16,000 troops of the largest empire in the world.
Commenting on the film Director Nick Ryan said, “Recreating the Dublin of 1916 will require the representation of the city before and after the immense destruction. The city is a character in the film and we believe that accuracy in the geography and look of the building is essential. To enable this we intend to create a very large exterior stage with the appropriate cobblestone street and lower level structure combined with 100ft high blue/green screen backgrounds, and composite authentic models of the surrounding buildings in the various stages of destruction. Rather than focusing on the leaders of the uprising, we will portray the events from the perspective of a man whose journey across the barricaded city brings him in contact with both sides of the conflict. We will bring a level of authenticity to the production that like The Summit, puts you firmly on the ground during the extraordinary events of Easter 1916”.
The movie will be part funded through an Indiegogo campaign that will launch around The Web Summit in early November and is scheduled to go into production in early 2015.
