Hi, My name is Peter New and I'm fundraising to make films!

I'm an actor and voice actor, best known for My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, School Spirits, Ghosts and Queens for a Day. I was recently in Backrooms, Private Eyes West Coast, Murder in a Small Town and Tracker.

I have two screenplays I wish to direct. More on that below.

I've always written films, but it's only recently I've started directing them too! My first film "Lost Wallet" about how two Finnish friends entertain themselves in the long cold Finnish winter has played at festivals globally and won several awards, including Best Editing, Best Supporting Actor, Best WTF Film, as well as numerous audience and jury prizes. It's time to step up.

I am looking for 350k for Silos and 3mil for Welcome to Iceland.

Those are the final numbers. Gofundme automatically carves it into step-goals, hence the current ask of 35k. That 35k (10% of Silos!) can be used as seed money to secure future investments and grants

Protect one: Current title: Silos.

Silos is a feature film in vignette. It's a study of the different identities we give ourselves that we use to trap ourselves in self-destructive patterns. Moving from story to story like Night on Earth or Magnolia, Silos delves into obsession, gluttony, denial and fear, and ultimately hope. I want to produce Silos as an ultra low budget indie film using no more than 350,000 CAD. This amount allows me to produce the film at a level that will allow it to look good, have the impact it needs, and pay people at least a little. It's deeply important to me that casts and crews are not exploited. That costs money.

We would like to go to camera on Silos in November of 2027 to February of 2028.

Project two: Welcome to Iceland

Welcome to Iceland is a comedy about grief. When Robert loses his brother in a freak accident, he must learn to get along with the family he's never felt himself to be a true part of. His overbearing mother and distant father take him on a trip to Iceland in Wintertime, where the culture shock and cold unite to repair the continental rifts between them. Also there's herring.

Welcome to Iceland will be produced as a Canada/Iceland co-pro, involving actors and crew from both countries. I also aim to cast a couple of folks you may have heard of... but I can't do that without money. We seek to raise 3 million dollars in order to fund casting, travel, crew pay, food, equipment rental, post production and possibly marketing.

Whatever we raise up to 350,000 will go to Silos, and whatever we raise beyond that will go to Welcome to Iceland. The success of Silos will naturally feed Welcome to Iceland.

My vision is always to make beauty that's heartfelt and touching, comedic and powerful, unexpected and fantastic. My inspiration is drawn from David Lynch, Terry Gilliam- so visually enticing and wonderfully odd, but also from Spielberg- good storytelling, meaningfully and articulately rendered in film.

If this sounds like it's up your alley, please consider donating- any amount will do- but this is no small ask. As much as you're able will be met with my deepest gratitude.

We would like to go to camera on Welcome to Iceland in February of 2029

I will be adding a downloadable cost breakdown in the coming weeks.