subject: Vampires Just Got Real [print this page] Management/production companies Caliber Media Co. and Benderspink have teamed up with the newly formed Simplicity Media to launch an experimental feature film and social media project entitled BLOODLOSS. The concept is to stage a full-scale production within the modern-day subculture of sanguine vampires, a close-knit community with a spiritual obsession to drink human blood to maintain physical health. The feature narrative will be constructed from pseudo-documentary scenes using a combination of actors and true participants in this lifestyle (both human vampires and their blood donors) shot in real vampire-fetish nightclubs. A social media campaign of status updates, blog entries, and video posts will allow viewers to receive daily updates on BLOODLOSS, while being directly engaged with each character and their experience in this dark world.
The film will be produced by Simplicity Medias Les Lukacs and Amanda Cryer and Caliber Media Co.s Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller. JC Spink, Chris Bender, Chris Cosmos, and Jake Weiner will executive produce for Benderspink. Brad Jensen and award-winning VFX supervisor Rik Shorten will also serve in a co-producing capacity. Casting is underway, and a director will be announced in the coming weeks.
Caliber screenwriting client Jason Dolan conceived the current version of the project with the producers and did a page-one rewrite to the original script by Jeffery Potts.
BLOODLOSS follows the journey of a documentary television producer as she investigates her sisters sudden disappearance into an underground culture of self-proclaimed "Vampires". As she discovers how these people actually live, their world of sex and drugs is beyond any addiction she has ever experienced.
Producer Amanda Cryer added some insight: While there is no actual evidence that Vampires exist in our world today, there are those who are attracted to and choose to live the predatory lifestyle of the Vampire regardless of the consequences.
For more information visit: www.bloodlossthemovie.com
ABOUT SIMPLICITY MEDIA
Simplicity Media is a multi-faceted entertainment production company with offices in Vancouver and Los Angeles. Guided by the partners years of experience in social media and post-production, as well as VFX supervision on major television projects such as CSI and CALIFORNICATION, partners Cryer, Lukacs and Shorten joined forces this year to create compelling content for television, film, music, new media, and experiential formats.
ABOUT CALIBER MEDIA CO.
Caliber recently wrapped on Jack Hellers feature DARK WAS THE NIGHT starring Kevin Durand, and is prepping the New Artists Alliance feature THE SCRIBBLER. They are in post-production on REFUGE, a drama starring Krysten Ritter and Brian Geraghty, directed by Jessica Goldberg, STATIC, a horror-thriller starring Milo Ventimiglia and shot in 3D, and 3 NIGHTS IN THE DESERT, starring Amber Tamblyn and Wes Bentley, which Gabriel Cowan directed. And its thriller ENTER NOWHERE, starring Paxton, Scott Eastwood and Katherine Waterston, will be released by Lionsgate Home Entertainment in April.
ABOUT BENDERSPINK
Benderspink has recently set up AREA 52, an untitled Cook and Weisberg pitch and THE MONEY PLANE at Lionsgate/Summit,ABDUCTED and THE MIGHTY at Paramount, CITIES OF REFUGE at Inferno and UNDYING LOVE at Warners Bros. Benderspink is currently finishing principal photography on BURT WONDERSTONE for New Line and will begin production on THE HANGOVER 3 in the fall. Benderspink continued to prove its pioneering spirit when it partnered with Arcana Comics to create Arcana/Benderspink Comics earlier this month.
