The campaign for marriage equality has had a lot of things, but one thing it hasn’t had up until now is a full-on movie musical! However two straight Aussie guys are determined to set that right, as they’ve written Super Awesome!, and hope to shoot it early next year in Australia and the UK.
While they have the cash for the Aussie part, they need a bit of help for the West End of London set finale, so they’ve set up an IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign to help raise $50,000 to fund it. This will allow them to bring a skeleton crew to Britain and get their big ending in the can.
Super Awesome! is ‘A comedy feature film about a couple of down and out buds, Mark and Gary, given one last shot at achieving their dreams. Out of the blue Mark and Gary find themselves with 250K to headline the opening night of a massive international festival. It’s Rocky meets SuperBad set against the hilarious backdrop of two straight guys doing their best to write a musical about an issue they know nothing about – Gay Marriage. As the clock ticks down to opening night and the whole production inches towards collapsing, Mark and Gary ultimately are illuminated to the significance of gay marriage and the potential their musical has to make a change…but is it too little too late?’
Writers/directors Guy Edmonds and Matt Zeremes met a decade when they appeared in London and Australian productions of Holding the Man, based on Timothy Conigrave’s memoir about the love between two HIV positive men. Through that they met many gay people who told them their stories, and with the current fight for marriage equality they felt moved to come up with something that might be able to change hearts and minds. As they say in the film’s IndieGogo campaign, ‘Marriage inequality sucks! This film speaks about it’s suckiness but does it through humour!’
Take a look at the campaign video above, and head over to IndieGoGo to find out more.
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