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Help Fund An Untold Story In Cinema

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Jehnovah Carlisle is an independent filmmaker who is relocating to Los Angeles, California, to be closer to the film industry and produce his first feature film.

Jehnovah Carlisle

Carlisle graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in American Studies/ Film (2013). He also graduated from California College of the Arts with a MFA in Film Production (2015).

Carlisle has written, produced, and directed his own short films during and upon graduating from CCA in 2015. His short films have won awards and have been screened locally and nationally in festivals and community venues.


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The Man Who Feared trailer

Post grad school, Carlisle has been active in building his film career as a writer and director. Carlisle sold his first script in 2016. And in 2017 he completed his third short film The Man Who Feared and also produced the short film, I Am a God: Prologue, directed by his friend and close collaborator Benjamin Michel.Benjamin Michel (left) and Carlisle (right)


Carlisle’s next project is ambitious, yet it’s the next practical step in the filmmaker’s sprouting career.
The working title of the project is: En Garde!

The project will be based on a true story, chronicling the life and journey of an African American fencer’s plight to the olympic games during the 1970’s.


This has not been told in American cinema. Carlisle will be the first to tell it.
 
The project, in it’s entirety, will be broken up into two productions: the short film and the feature length film. The short film will be an excerpt of the feature length film. The short film will be used to attract more investors to help fund the feature length film.

This Campaign is focused on funding the short film. Many details about the short film are being withheld from the campaign at this time because the project is still in pre-production.

At this stage of the campaign, Carlisle is asking for two things:

1. Funds to help cover a plane ticket to travel from LA to New York (August 21, 2017)  to further interview the person that the film is based on

2. Funds to pay the film’s storyboard artist, Wardell McNeal. He’s a master of his craft. Check out his work on instagram: @post_structure

Visual storyboards are critical to a film’s success. If done right, the film is essentially made before it is photographed. The storyboard process helps you set the mood, tone, and visual language of a film. It will become a pre-visualization of how the characters will look in front the camera.

These are some rough sketches of what Wardell and Carlisle have been developing for the potential look of the film’s storyboard:




This campaign page will be updated on a continuous basis, sharing information on the progress of the project. Thank you all for your support!

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Oakland, CA

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