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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.
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.