Kingdom Come

A filmmaker and former filmmaking teacher of mine — Paiman Kalayeh — got in touch. He and a colleague, John Lyons Murphy, were putting the finishing touches on a documentary. There were a lot of talking heads and they wanted my help to mix things up with a combination of storyboards and lo-fi animation.

The documentary — Kingdom Come — followed the journey of actor Daniel Gillies’ struggle to write and direct his first film — Broken Kingdom — in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. His story is intercut with the war stories of independent film luminaries — like Ed Burns, Kevin Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Tim Roth, Don Cheadle, Selma Blair and Ron Perlman among others. 

For all of them, independent film is a passion that comes at a high price. 

 
 

Kingdom Come Trailer

Click on the tile below to check out the official theatrical trailer for Kingdom Come.

 
 
Daniel and John meet a filmmaker in a bar
Bruce Campbell talks to his dad
Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi had some interesting jobs
Where the money comes from
The devil you know
Filmmaking and fatherhood
Where's the rest of the money coming from?
Daniel asks John to produce
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John on the phone
Cross Country Trip
The path from money to movie to drugs
You wanna play?
Robert Townsend at the Deauville Film Festival
Filmmaking Pirates
 

Broken Kingdom

Click on tile below to see a trailer of Broken Kingdom, the film that very nearly didn’t get made were it not for the unflinching dedication of Gillies, John Lyons Murphy his producer and his wife and partner, Rachel Leigh Cook.

 
 
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