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• 11 designers

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Poster Design Brief

We need a one-sheet movie poster for an unproduced film project entitled "LITTLE AMERICA", an adult drama with elements of a psychological & erotic thriller.

Brief Synopsis: Roberta, 22, a streetwise and strikingly beautiful Florida woman, finds herself the captive and abused mistress of a high-end Latino drug mule driving cross-country from South Florida to Reno, Nevada. Abandoned by her lover in a raging mountain blizzard, Roberta clings to life struggling against wind, snow and sub-zero temps to reach Little America, Wyoming, an isolated motel/truck stop named after Admr. Richard Byrd's 1930 Antarctic outpost. Penniless, she accepts the unconditional kindness of Bobby, a mysteriously dispirited, homeless veteran who befriends her by sharing his room. Soon she finds herself embarked on a more treacherous internal journey in search of identity and soul. As the evils of their respective pasts close in, each tests the free will of man against the forces of fate in this erotic and Quixotic tale.

We are open to a variety of approaches including:

1. I will attach several stills taken from a short version of this film made several years ago. Some may need color correction.
Among the strongest images of these stills is a photo of Roberta walking along a snow bank. (This scene was shot "day for night" so the blueness of the still is intended.)
One potentially effective image might be to use the "snow bank" still as the backdrop of the poster, while inserting one or more of the actual character shots elsewhere in smaller frames or montage. [For an example of how this was done see the movie poster for "Snow Falling on Cedars" or "The Sheltering Sky".]

2. The beauty of Roberta from one of the other stills could be the central image.

3. Or you could find and use other strong wintry images to convey the personal isolation of this film.

There are several images which figure strongly into the visuals and themes of this film:
1. The isolation and cold of a high desert snow storm. This is a very barren area, so think of the South Pole rather than the mountains and forests. It is flat and snowy. There is no forest or TREES!
2. A quixotic love story develops between Roberta & Bobby. Think of Don Quixote & Aldonza, but in a modern, more isolated setting. Or the Japanese film, Woman in the Dunes.
3. There are dangerous people pursuing Roberta.
4. Roberta is a drop dead gorgeous woman who longs for the day when she need not depend on her sexuality to shape her destiny.

Target Market(s)

Art house movie audience

Industry/Entity Type

Movie

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Look and feel

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Requirements

Must have

• This information MUST appear somewhere on the poster. Initial placement is the designer's choice so as to best compliment his/her work.
  
  CRIMSON DAWN PRODUCTIONS
  Presents
  A FILM BY KENNETH MARKEN
  
  
  Journey Beyond Destiny… (Use of this phrase is optional.)
  
  LITTLE AMERICA (Title)
  
  Must use one of these taglines:
  A Quixotic & Passionate Tale of Deliverance
  or
  A Quixotic Tale of Peril, Love, & Deliverance
  
  Again, there should be no doubt that this film deals with winter, snow, isolation, harsh conditions.
  It is also hard to imagine a poster without an image of Roberta.
  
  Design needs to be at high resolution for printing 8.5x11 sheets or larger prints such as 12x19. THIS IS A MOVIE POSTER. Thus, DO NOT use a landscape set-up; it must have a PORTRAIT set-up.

Nice to have

• "Principal Photography - Winter, 2014" somewhere in frame

Should not have

• This is not a political film. DO NOT use an image of the American flag in this poster. I realize that many designers are not from the USA. However, the name "Little America" is NOT a political statement or image. The original name was a base camp for explorers of the South Pole. It represented to them a "shelter from the storm", a safe harbor, a place where they were safe and could restore themselves. The name is a metaphor for those same needs of the lead characters in the film.

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