Young Israeli filmmaker uses Indiegogo to raise funds for consciousness raising film; Hollywood celebrities collaborate in the non-political project.
Israel Seen – iSyndrome – short film
Tel Aviv, June 2015. Young, successful, talented and edgy Israeli film director and producer Barak Shavit has a dream. Rather than focus on the usual concerns of Israelis—the Israel-Palestinian conflict, regional violence or even Israel as a start-up nation in an increasingly competitive world, Shavit wants to expose people to new aspects of consciousness.
Shavit’s upcoming film, iSyndrome, revolves around a brilliant brain researcher suffering from Depersonalization Disorder, losing his mind. His wife, a post-materialist researcher, tries everything she can to save him, even if it means reaching the end of life, and going to the heart of consciousness. Click here to watch a teaser of iSyndrome on Shavit’s production company website, Blue Monkey Productions.
The film is deeply rooted in one of Shavit’s favorite genres, sci fi-drama. “It’s been something of a lifelong dream of mine to tell a story like those big sci fi space movies, but doing so while trading space with consciousness, meaning, telling a story not about outer space, but inner consciousness – which is even more mysterious and vast than space and time. I think that consciousness is at the very basis of who we are, but we know and understand only the tip of the ice berg. There is so much to be explored and revel and movies are the perfect platform to explore and communicate it” Barak says.
Shavit is seeking external funding to complete the project. The project team has brought down this cost considerably by using their own equipment and talented professional friends. In order to meet the remaining expenses, he has started an Indiegogo campaign with the funding goal of $14,800. To learn more about the Indiegogo campaign click here.
Shavit has worked on a number of award winning film and commercial projects. such as the award winning feature film “It’s never too late”, the short “F is for Falling” for the ABC’s of Death2 by Magnolia Pictures and many others films. Some of Israel’s leading talented filmmakers such as Nadav Shlomo Giladi, who produced the SFX in Natalie Portman’s feature film “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, the graphic design in “Oppenheimer Strategies” with Richard Gere, and the animation for Disney mobile gaming application are involved with iSyndrome.
Also on board is Hollywood actor JSU Garcia whose credits include, “Nightmare on Elm Street”, “We Were Soldiers”, “Along Came Polly” and “Collateral Damage.”
Shavit’s film not only explores consciousness, a field along with mindfulness that is of growing interest mainstream interest, it serves as a bridge between groups of hip, non-mainstream artists and film professionals from Israel and the US to collaborate at a time when such cooperation is threatened by those who seek to boycott Israeli arts.
Israel Seen – iSyndrome – short film
