TEL AVIV, Israel, July 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Hip, young, successful Israeli film director and producer Barak
Shavit has a dream. Rather than focus on the usual concerns
of Israelis-the Israel-Palestinian conflict, or even Israel as a start-up nation, 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. Watch a teaser here .
"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
iceberg. There is so much to be explored and movies are the perfect
platform," Barak says.
The project team has brought down this cost considerably using
their own equipment and talented professional friends. In order to
meet the remaining expenses, he has started an Indiegogo campaign
to raise the final $14,000.
Shavit has worked on a number of award winning film projects
such as the feature film "It's Never Too Late", the short, "F is
for Falling" and for the "ABC's of Death2" by Magnolia Pictures.
Some of Israel's leading talented
filmmakers like 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 mainstream interest, it serves
as a bridge between groups of young 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.
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SOURCE Kam Global Strategies