'Tölt': An Icelandic Horse Documentary

Reykjavik, Iceland
FUNDED

UPDATE: Follow all the latest goings on here

About the Director

Emerging film-maker and photographer Lesley Elliott has a keen eye for design and a great understanding of colour and form. Currently studying full time at Confetti Creative Institute in Nottingham, UK for a degree in Film and TV production, donations are required for the production of a documentary about Iceland and the hardy horses that call it home.

About the Film

Iceland is a wonderfully charismatic country full of folk tales, traditions and nature. Volcanoes, giesers, lava fields and trolls houses made from rocks set the scene for the main character of this documentary the Icelandic Horse. The ONLY breed brought to Iceland to survive, natural selection has played a huge role in the breeding of this hardy fellow and as a result of having no natural predators are very self assured and characterful. They are especially known in the horse world for their ability to perform an additional running technique named the Tölt, a very quick four beat walking/run where one foot is always kept to the ground, allowing for an unusually soft ride. It is known that you can drink a glass of beer while riding full speed in this gait!

Gorgeously saturated images of the landscape will compliment a slow paced, close study of these creatures that could have almost been plucked out of a myths and legends tale.

Music is being commissioned by 8mm Orchestra with possible future EP release.

http://soundcloud.com/8mm-orchestra

Film is being shot on a Canon 550D.

All footage will be shot at various locations in Iceland, mainly the North and West cost where the horse population exceeds the human!

Post production to commence on return to UK and finished late April 2012.

About the funding

Projected costs for one person:
Travel                 £300 for return flights and travel Nottingham-Heathrow-Rekjavik
Car hire              £300 week
Accommodation £300 week
Food                   £200 week
Expendables      £150 week

Please give a little, give alot, give anything you can spare to make this production, 

A PRODUCTION! 

THANK YOU!

Lesley Elliott

www.lesleyelliott.co.uk / www.lesleyelliott.tumblr.com

Editor, Director, Writer, Producer

Fichiers Audio: 

The owner of this project has not made any updates yet. FR

Commentaires

I hope you manage to get over to Iceland Lesley, you have worked so hard on this project. Good Luck. Love and sneezes xx
Hi Lesley, I came across your video on 'Inspired by Iceland' site and decided to lend a little helping hand. I wish you the best of luck with your project and looking forward to your finished work! All the best! Eva

Pages

Users details

sayhellolesley
31
Cofinanceurs
0
Day to go
GBP £1,250
100% de GBP £1,250 collectés
Ce projet a pris fin le Dimanche 4 Mars - 23:59

This project's deadline has now expired - you can no longer back these rewards

Cette campagne est achevée, vous ne pouvez donc plus y contribuer.

 

£1

£1.00 + : The fuzzies

 

Lovely bit o' paper

£10.00 + : For this small but equally important contributory backing you will receive a heartfelt thank you via the royal mail/airmail in the form of an Icelandic postcard signed by the director *insert the warm fuzzies

 

Something to feast your eyes on

£25.00 + : you will receive the lovely signed thank you Icelandic postcard and also a copy of the finished film on DVD, how great is that!

 

See your name on screen!

£50.00 + : Not only the thank you postcard and the DVD, but also a special thank you mention in the credits ("look mum, I'm famous!")