Allison Anders Raising $ For STRUTTER Music Fund
Indie film legends and friends of Bad People, Allison Anders and Kurt Voss have launched a second round of crowd-funding through Kickstarter to raise some bucks for music rights for their new film, STRUTTER. Us indie filmmakers never learn to NOT fall in love with music during editing… “The “Strutter” Music Fund Project will raise funds to pay for the music licensing and the recording costs for the original score being composed by Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis.”
From Kickstarter:
“The last feature (the first being Border Radio, recently released on Criterion) in a trilogy from award-winning filmmakers Allison Anders and Kurt Voss, “Strutter” tells the story of 22 year old BRETT (Flannery Lunsford) , a singer for a Los Angeles rock band who finds himself heartbroken when he loses his muse JUSTINE to his own local idol, the fast-ascending art rocker DAMON (Dante White Aliano). But with the support of his filmmaker gal pal CLEO (Elyse Hollander) , Brett not only learns to love again, he comes to form an oddly simpatico friendship with former romantic rival Damon. Along the way, Brett also learns to better understand his parents’ odd marriage, and the complications and compromises that come with adulthood.”
Voss and Anders have launched their second campaign for this movie with a new host of rewards and goodies for pledges — some odd and awesome — like a “cock sock” hand-knitted by HUNG star Thomas Jane and a 6-month membership to CineFamily (The Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax for non-Los Angelenos). For a $300 pledge, Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen, Twilight, Lords of Dogtown) has donated autographed DVDs and making-of-books for many of her films. As always, you can pledge just $1 to help out and support an indie film totally financed by Kickstarter.
On a side note, this is Anders’ first movie in ten years. She has always supported myself and Bad People — we ran our Kickstarter drive during the same time STRUTTER ran its first. Years ago, she mentored me in screenwriting and is one of the most giving people I’ve ever met.
