openindie, Filmmaker Focus: Gary King

Back in November ‘09 we were lucky enough to receive financial backing and tremendous support from some seriously talented indie filmmakers. In this new series of bite-sized blogs we plan to introduce (or re-introduce) you to a number of our founding filmmakers that we feel are seriously storming this new world of indie filmmaking.

This week the subject of OpenIndie Filmmaker Focus is American DIY filmmaker Gary King. We chose Gary to feature this week because he has just successfully completed the colossal task of crowdfunding his next feature to the tune of a staggering $31,101!!! Like OpenIndie, Gary used Kickstarter.com to fund his film HOW DO YOU WRITE A JOE SCHERMANN SONG which he plans to shoot in the summer of 2010.

Gary only started his feature filmmaking career in 2009 with drama NEW YORK LATELY for which he garnered some serious critical acclaim. Since, he has directed horror film DISMAL (2009) and has also been hired to direct action/comedy zombie flick DEATH OF THE DEAD (2010). As if that wasn’t enough he has also just wrapped post-production on his latest feature film WHAT’S UP LOVELY (2010) which is the film Gary has chosen to build an audience for using OpenIndie.

So, if you’re unfamiliar with Gary’s work check out his website to keep up-to-date with his prolific output and from the guys at OpenIndie: Gary - congratulations on such an amazing crowdfunding achievement and we look forward to working with you to get as many eyeballs on your work as possible!

Kieran Masterton

OpenIndie Co-Founder