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Hello,
We have completed 8 weeks of prep and four days of shooting our short film The Pitch Black Lonely in beautiful County Wicklow in Ireland. We are in the middle of our edit which is very exciting.
We did NOT reach our target, so we are still raising funds for post- production for our sound mix and score, and color grade, aswell as festival entry costs.
Please consider making a small donation to our film
Crowdfunding remains one of the few viable avenues to getting short films made, and allows other more marginalized voices to push through. Your contribution, no matter what size, has an important and vital impact on the creation of this film. We are thrilled to accept any donation, no matter how small & if you want to donate a larger sum for a producer credit, please get in touch .
Why does post production cost so much?
Post-production is crucial for refining and perfecting the raw footage captured during filming. It allows filmmakers to transform their vision into a polished, cohesive, and impactful final product that can resonate with audiences and meet industry standards.
In attaining industry standards, it is essential we use professional talent, to implement our important multi layered textured sound design and compose an original score, to make the final vision truly sublime. This can mean paying a sound designer for a few weeks of work.
When will I be able to see the film?
Upon completion, The Pitch Black Lonely will premiere at a top festival and we will set off on our festival journey internationally TOGETHER!
A majority of film festivals prefer to showcase films that have not been publicly released and are premieres. By avoiding public releases, as filmmakers, we preserve the exclusivity of our work and increase the chances of being selected for prestigious festivals. World premieres and other exclusive screenings can generate more buzz and attention as well as allowing the film.
What is The Pitch Black Lonely all about? Why is it relative?
It's a universal fact that cultural heritage and mythology link us back to nature and nurture connection to our own humanity. In this story, we blend the past with a gritty modern Ireland, at odds with each other. Placing mythology against technology, urban against rural, our natural world against an increasingly homogenized world and a rapidly growing individualistic society, where human kindness is rare and nature is unimportant and only exists to serve as a commodity. The Pitch Black Lonely uses Irish folklore in a refreshing and important way. Folklore is not only an Irish concern, with our world being destroyed by big tech and corporate greed it is more important than ever to highlight our dwindling loss of connection to land and to each other.
What will your donation help with?
We are already halfway through our edit, your donation will support and assist our post-production expenses which include sound mix/ design and original score, color-grading, and hard drives for storage.
How you can help!
With your donation, you are literally supporting the creation of a film. There are lots of cool reasons to support, here's a few:
- This film is being made by a group of talented professionals working in the Irish film industry, we provide opportunities for film crew who are just getting started.
- In a world flooded with corporate media and commercial predictably "safe" films, why not get behind a group of people making some actual art!
- Help a female filmmaker. Female filmmakers remain a minority and statistics show even more decline this year particularly with female writers and directors. There was only one female filmmaker on Screen Ireland's slate of features for 2025.
- Female writer/ director stories are not being commissioned, in 2021, women filmmakers made up only 25% of behind-the-scenes roles in top-grossing films. But by 2024, that figure has slipped to 23%. Particularly striking is the decline in women directors: while women helmed 18% of top-grossing films in 2018 and 2022, that figure dropped to just 16% in 2024.
More about 10KHRS Films
- We have produced the award winning short film The Lucky Man written and directed by Laoisa Sexton which screened internationally and in Ireland, it picked up multiple awards at Bafta recognized LOCO Film Festival in London , for BEST FILM, BEST SCRIPT and BEST ACTOR in 2023.The film screened on RTE (Irish National TV) ShortScreen.
- We produced The Ulysses Project directed by Trevor Murphy and Laoisa Sexton, which screened as part of James Joyce Bloomsday festivals. The film is screening again at Irish Cultural Centre in London for this year's Bloomsday.
- We produced Laoisa Sexton's debut short film, I Didn't...I Wasn't...I Amn't starring veteran Irish actor, Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones), the film premiered at Cork Film Festival and has a long successful festival journey. It was nominated for many awards and won Best International Short at Nottingham Film Festival, Best Actress at Wexford Film Festival, and Best Romance Film at Edinburgh. Ten Thousand Hours is an Irish collective of filmmakers that focuses on dark comedy dramas illuminating the human condition.
- We have also produced numerous videos and short films.
For more information, please go to 10KHRS Films
Join us, help bring this exciting dream to life!
Thank You from the bottom of our hearts.
Your support means the world to us.
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