This Way Out is a pitch-black British comedy about Minnie, a woman obsessed with helping people, and her struggle to run a euthanasia centre from her tiny, top floor flat...
Pre-production on our short film has already begun and we will be shooting in the next six weeks! It will screen at BAFTA before being sent to Film Festivals worldwide.
----- FUNDING UPDATE----- Hurrah! We have passed our initial funding target! Thank you so much to all our wonderful, amazing Backers. With the time we have left our new target is £2300. This extra £300 will be used towards the post-production of the film, so please show your support by becoming a Backer now. QUICK, TIME IS RUNNING OUT!
What’s the story?
This Way Out follows Minnie and her hapless assistant Maud as they try to run a euthanasia centre – from Minnie’s tiny top floor flat. Unfortunately business has been deadly slow and the Government has sent an official to issue an ultimatum: Get the death numbers up to target, within ten days, or face closure. How far will Minnie and Maud go to save their jobs and their home? Deadlines can be murder...
This Way Out is a dark, reckless and fun film exploring the mad world of corporate targets and how chasing them can drive people to extremes.
Who are you?
This Way Out is written and directed by Staten Cousins-Roe. Staten founded the London based production company Forward Motion Pictures.
Our first film Drawn (see a trailer here) was picked as one of the top 10 breakthrough films of the year at the London UK Film Focus screening (alongside Sommers Town by Shane Meadows and Edge Of Love starring Keira Knightly and Sienna Miller). Drawn was later distributed internationally - a remarkable achievement for such a low budget feature film.
Our second film: short This Love - a beautiful tale of lost love, helmed by director Joseph Warley, has just begun its festival circuit having screened as part of the Short Film Corner at Cannes Film Festival 2012.
This Way Out is especially important – as it will be Staten’s directorial debut. We are so pleased to have a fantastically talented and experienced crew already on board to support him (check out the website for stuff about them). We are all very excited and ready to start shooting...
How can I help?
We really need YOUR support! Although our wonderful cast and crew have offered their services heavily discounted….well basically for free, we really need to pay other costs, including their expenses. This means travel, equipment hire and insurance. Although our budget is actually over £6000 (for editing, grading, sound etc) we need to raise more than £2000 on Sponsume.
What do I do now?
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The last four days has been super busy and now I'm very, very happy to announce we have wrapped on the filming of This Way Out! All the footage is in the can and will now be whisked away to our wonderful editor to being the cutting process. To say I'm feeling ecstatic would be an understatement, the footage is looking even better than I could of imagined. Even the weather changed to what we needed, a sunset here, a break in the clouds there. And none of it would have been possible with out you lovely, lovely people backing us and me. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
We'll be uploading photo's over the next week, as we get them, from our brilliant set photographer Lenka Rayn H. I can't wait to show you all what you helped create!
Speak very soon,
Staten
Thank you. Is all we have left to say. After an excellent day of rehearsals with super talented actors - we are overwhelmed to find more Backers have come on board! We are so pleased to be sharing this special project with so many generous, wonderful Backers. Thank you for making this possible. Each and everyone of you has made a HUGE difference to the quality of this film. Thank you, Thank you. Thank you.
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What a day! After a fantastic production meeting with our wonderful producer Giles Alderson from http://www.gold-films.com/ we got the news that three more AMAZING people have become Backers - including a new Associate Producer, David Brook. Now we are over our funding target! Thank you all so much for your support. You are extraordinarily kind. Each and every one of you has made a difference. Your support is what makes this project special. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Now I'm off to continue work on the visual treatment of the film...
Staten Cousins-Roe
The weekend was spent up high on cliffs - Location scouting was never so beautiful. We found an excellent location on the coast - the stunning wide open spaces, calm vast sea and looming cliffs will provide the perfect setting for some important scenes in This Way Out.
We had a fantastic day of costume fittings on Tuesday. Our two leads, Poppy Roe and Katie Brayben, who play Minnie and Maud, looked fantastic. All lead by our amazing costume designer Mia Gray who has worked on wonderful movies including Guy Richie's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and Brad Pitt's upcoming movie World War Z.
Almost 70% there!! Thank you to the LOVELY Carolyn Morris and Elizabeth Thomas for becoming Backers (We thanked you hugely on Facebook/Twitter but couldn't find you!). We are spurred on by all our wonderful supporters so far.
We are currently securing more cast members...exciting announcements to follow shortly!
A new cast member has been confirmed! : We are so lucky to have the wonderfully talented Katie Brayben on board. Katie starred in Mike Bartlett's highly acclaimed '13' at the National Theatre earlier this year and can currently be seen in Ragtime and A Midsummer Night's Dream at Regent's Park open air theatre.
We are so excited to announce that we have the HUGELY talented Giles Alderson on board with the project. Giles has a MASS of experience and will be an invaluable asset to our team, as a Producer, and is awesome to work with! ( http://www.gold-films.com/ )
We are all jumping up and down at being over the half way mark already! A MASSIVE THANK YOU to everyone who has helped us to get this far.
We are all pushing ahead with production work. The script is looking fantastic and expanding and growing wonderfully. Exciting times ahead.
Thank you so much to all our wonderful Backers, we are now so close to the 50% mark already - only made possible with your help.
It's been an exciting week: draft two of the screenplay is nearing completion and we are so happy to announce that more, very talented, key crew members have come on board (we'll be posting who shortly!).
We've been live for only three days and already we're 36% of the way there. Still a way to go, but what a start! Thank you so much to our latest amazing backers Jenny-Ann Topham, Jade Stevenson, Elliot Coxon, Susan Criquand, Stepha Roe and Charlotte Wattley. You all rock!
We've been live for only 6 hours on our first day of crowdfunding and we're already 29% funded! The hugest of thankyous already to Julie Bozza (@JulieBozza), Samuel Miralles, and Nicholas Roe (@ProTraveller). You all rock!
