Win an Evening with Scream Queen Brooke Lewis in Support of Manga/Anime/Cosplay Film Black Hat
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Upcoming manga/anime-themed feature film Black Hat is currently in the fundraising stage, and among the cool incentives being offered is an opportunity to attend the premiere with one of the stars, Brooke Lewis herself!
We have some information on the project below; for more visit the official Black Hat fundraising campaign at Seed & Spark, “like” Black Hat on Facebook, and follow Black Hat on Twitter (@blackhatanime).
And be sure to head over and check out the sights at BrookeLewis.com as well. Oh, Ms. Vampy, how we love ya!
From the Press Release
The national fundraising campaign for Black Hat has launched to promote the passion of the anime, manga, and cosplay community with writer/director/actor Robbie Bryan (iMurders, The Stand-In). The launching pad is with Seed & Spark, a truly independent filmmaking community where filmmakers and audiences come together for crowd-funding, production, and streaming distribution.
The campaign coincides with Black Hat’s presence at the launch of the new Bright Ideas filmmaking magazine by former Managing Editor of MovieMaker Magazine, James Kaelan. The launch party takes place during the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, January 19th.
Inspired to tell a story about the magical art form of anime and manga, Robbie Bryan wrote about a 16-year-old American girl who is determined to travel to an anime convention halfway across the country to pitch her manga book to Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop/Animatrix/Macross Plus). Black Hat is a narrative feature and taps on the themes of bullying, regret over life’s choices, and their consequences, while underscoring the need to be yourself and find your own way in the world.
Jodelle Ferland (Twilight: Eclipse, Tall Man, Silent Hill) is committed to star as the lead character, Dandi. The film includes an 11-minute anime segment by producer and co-founder of Madhouse Studios, Masao Maruyama, cosplay star Jessie Pridemore (“Ruffle Butt”), and Scream Queen Brooke Lewis, who also counsels teens about bullying. As Dandi is into death metal, the film will have the musical likeness of Slipknot.
Others committed to the production are casting director Judy Henderson, who recently won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series for “Homeland”; Emmy-award winning make-up artist Joshua Turi (“Saturday Night Live”, Men in Black 3); producer Sibyl Santiago (Sam, starring Stacy Keach); and composer Andrew Hollander (Waitress starring Keri Russell), a recipient of The Hollywood Reporter’s Composers on the Verge of the A-List.
Robbie Bryan states, “If we raise enough money through our Seed & Spark campaign to prove to the Hollywood investors that the anime community is chomping at the bit to support a movie that properly represents them and what they are about, they will finance the rest.”
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