Another Movie You Made: “The Academy”. Kenneth Barr provides some background:
THE ACADEMYThey are society’s flotsam, murderers, sociopaths, criminals bred for Darwinian survival. Culled together, a select group of convicted youths are given a second chance by a shadowy organization: The Academy. They will be trained to become efficient weapons of death, honing the very thing that made them outcast into a valued asset. They are divided into classes, trained as a unit for three years and isolated from everyone and everything else. The final exam? Over 100 square kilometers, classmates must track down and eliminate each other until only one remains. The rules: They cannot engage each other in public places, in front of witnesses, or harm or cause harm to innocent bystanders. Highly trained and with limited time, friend will kill friend, enemy slaughter enemy across a populated urban backdrop. This is The Academy. Let the exam begin.
The film became a labour of love for most everybody involved, and we completed it just a couple months ago after an extended post production period. In bringing it to market though we’ve run into some “issues” not on the quality, or acting, or effects or anything that makes a film, but simply that we possess “No Name Actors”. This is the go-to response I’ve been receiving for about a month now, and our little film-family are just looking for some honest assessment.
Here’s the trailer for “The Academy”:
And the first 10 minutes of the film:
The company site: www.idiomfilms.ca.
For more information, email info@idiomfilms.ca.
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Wow! Visually arresting, to say the least! I'm totally impressed with this, everything about it. Looks great, terrific premise, performances seem sharp… best of all, it strikes me as pretty unique.
I'm so glad I'm not in film production, I could never compete with the great works being put forward here by Scott.
Keep pushing on this one, man, I'll bet you get some action eventually.
Looks like fun.
Seems like you might be able to get a little return on investment by going straight to DVD. "Battle Royale" has done very well with a very similar premise, you could be looking at a cult hit and a way to open the doors to another film down the road.