IdeaMe is an online platform, which helps creators, be they inventors, artists, or designers, among others, to finance their projects through crowd funding. The Indy features and promotes one project every week, with the aim of helping the creators finance and achieve their dreams. This week: The Top of The World.
A production company is hoping to receive enough backing to complete their short film highlighting the hardships of a young boy, Tito. The film is designed to raise awareness of widespread poverty in Argentina and to demonstrate how young children are often expected to hit the streets in search of work.
“The Top of The World” narrates one day in the life of the young Argentine. At only 10 years old, Tito bears the weight of supporting his family. Each morning he wakes up, eats breakfast, and prepares his bag before leaving the house. Once in Santa Fe, a small public playground serves as his base where he changes his clothes, eats, drinks, and rests after long hours of juggling in exchange for small change.
Tito performs on the street (Photo courtesy of idea.me)
Dressed in a makeshift clown suit, Tito moves out in front of cars waiting at traffic lights to perform various juggling tricks with three hoops. Just before the lights turn green he finishes his routine and walks to each car hoping that the drivers hand him some form of reward, no matter how small.
As the day unfolds, the film follows Tito counting his earnings and changing from his costume before a chance meeting with a girl who is playing on the swings. After watching the girl for a while they begin talking and the attention of the film moves to focus on the different views of the playground. From Tito’s perspective it is merely somewhere related to his work, from the girl’s it is a place of freedom and expression.
Santa Fe-based Mutantecine are the production company behind the project and they have experience in not only making short films but television series as well. “We’ve been working on this project for a long time. It has a very special meaning to us and we are certain that it is a story that needs to be told,” Mutantecine write on their IdeaMe page.
So far only $2,133 of a required $15,000 has been raised and the project is hinged on an all or nothing basis, so with only 33 days to go the producers are hoping to gain further support. Those who donate will be in line to receive the “Awarded Producer” pack including printed high definition stills of the film, a personalised signed script, and a printed version of the production diary.
For more information and to support this project, visit its IdeaMe page.
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