We have gathered a group of Sydney based animators and film professionals to create a short animated film trailer – derived from an online award-winning screenplay (Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood 2011 “Best Script”) written and devised by Ivar Kants. Welcome to...
Based on Shakespeare’s great psychological thriller. The script for this trailer won the International Movie Trailer Festival “best trailer script” in 2011. You can read the script further down the page and look at the IMTF link here.
Get a taste of what we’re aiming for by watching this video teaser above. Hopefully it will excite you, and make you want to be part of it.
This trailer is aimed at the main international film audience of 20-40 year olds who are steeped in the world of graphic computer games, and the revival of the Gothic comic genre over recent years. There is also the possibility of opening a vast education opportunity, to make Shakespeare accessible to students in many countries. Animation transcends many barriers.
Our aim - is to use this trailer to sell the project on, to a production studio and/or internet platform - and realise it as an animated feature based on the full screenplay.
Please click here to read the script in its entirety.
Search for Ivar on IMDB for film and TV credits and Google him for credits and images. His career spans four decades as an Australian actor in film, TV and theatre. Over a third of his 72 theatre productions were Shakespeare or Jacobean. “My great passion“.
Dwayne is an award winning animator with a career spanning well over 35 years. He has worked for most the major animation studios such as Walt Disney and Nickelodeon with household titles such as Aladdin and Ren & Stimpy under his belt. He won an Emmy award for his work on Disney's Winnie the Pooh.
Angus is the head of sound at “Huzzah Sound” / Spectrum Films, one of Sydney’s major film post-production studios. Audio is crucial in this project. The text (as adapted by Ivar Kants) drives the images, and will be recorded first.
Jake has a fine arts background and has done extensive work in illustration. He is absolutely instrumental on the campaign.
Andrian is a senior graphic/web/motion/ux/ui designer with experience in a number of design disciplines. He directed, coordinated and executed this campaign.
The pact between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth, cemented with sexuality, that binds them, as with many serial killer partnerships. The psychology of evil. Although Lady Macbeth has “given suck”......we should feel, at the time of our story they are childless. If she were to concieve - a dose of certain herbs would eliminate any obstacle to their “vaulting ambition”.
The ultimate power of the story, is in Shakespeare’s beautifully rivetting text - which allows us to see the horrors they commit....yet feel for them. It is the prototype of all great thrillers and moves at break-neck speed.
The film is essentially set in a City. The visual style drifts between polluted, high-tech exteriors of “Blade-Runner” and the deco interiors (wood panel and chrome) of “Sunset Boulevarde.” Light and Shadow......the only colour in the film should burst onto the screen. The flames of an oil rig in the opening coroprate function. A red cloth holding a chrome pistol. It is un-ashamedly “film noir” derived. Macbeth’s end, resonates with Howard Hawke’s “Scarface”.
The world of globalisation - a world divided between those who control technology and the rest. The grinding poverty of the third world and within the economically strong countries themselves. The shaky markets in Europe and Asia. The political chaos and lawlessness of Eastern Europe, ,the dark and internecine violence in the Balkans, the drug cartels of Latin America.
The world’s coral reefs crumble, due to global warming, as do the great “twin towers” of commerce.......fueling political/religous wars, and global terrorism that erupts from the cauldron of the middle-east. Millions fleeing violence flood into Europe. Our Macbeth and Lady Macbeth breathe in such a world. They, like the “ baby-boomers” face the new millennium, and their own racing mortality...and this... is their final chance to make it.