Elegy For A Glacier
Colorado Springs, Colorado | Film Short
Drama, Shorts Program
When a glaciologist returns to her hometown to assess the nearby glacier for its prospective use as a ski resort, she finds herself confronted with her estranged eco-activist mother, who challenges her impartial stance and its impact on the town. A contemporary western set in a dying landscape.
Elegy For A Glacier
Colorado Springs, Colorado | Film Short
Drama, Shorts Program
1 Campaigns | New York, United States
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When a glaciologist returns to her hometown to assess the nearby glacier for its prospective use as a ski resort, she finds herself confronted with her estranged eco-activist mother, who challenges her impartial stance and its impact on the town. A contemporary western set in a dying landscape.
About The Project
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Mission Statement
The Story
ELEGY FOR A GLACIER is a contemporary western set in a disappearing landscape, with the dying glacier as the quintessential untamed frontier - wild, archaic, awe and fear inspiring - and dying much too fast, possibly already beyond saving. At the heart of the story is the relationship of an eco-activist mother and her glaciologist daughter who is called in to assess the glacier’s health and future on behalf of the town council of her hometown.
In the time capsule of her childhood home, the daughter discovers just how far her mother is willing to go in her activism to protect the glacier, while the mother discovers her daughter might just be the perfect tool to win this fight and tries to manipulate her into falsifying her scientific data.
The two strong-willed women are forced to reckon with their estrangement and difficult past as they find themselves on different sides of an ideological divide, and their differing stance on justice and conflicting approaches to saving the glacier and consequently their home reopens old familial wounds. While the town hopes to revamp the natural world to revilatize the economy for tourism, mother and daugther are forced to grapple with their sense of powerlessness in the face of a rapidly changing environment and the potential loss of their home.
The health of the earth’s glaciers often serve as the planet’s first warning sign of things to come. The future state of our planet has scared us more and more with each passing year as glaciers across the earth continue to recede and die - the implications of which we have yet to fully see. We are currently amidst one of the hottest summers on record. We are excited about this opportunity to tell this story about a small community that faces challenges we are all affected by on a global scale, and include the perspectives of glaciologists and activists.
Stephanie Falkeis is an Austrian director and screenwriter currently completing her MFA at Columbia University on a Fulbright Fellowship. She is a BAFTA Newcomers Talent and alum of the Telluride Film Festival Symposium. Her work often deals with notions of otherness and belonging, memory, and our relationship to the natural world. Her historical Miniseries ‘The Invisible Sister’ received the prestigious ‘Heldinnen in Serie’ award and development funding from FISA Austria. Her short films have screened internationally in cinemas, galleries and festivals. From 2015-2018 she produced and curated the bilateral Austrian American Short Film Festival, which she also co-founded.
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Nicholas Nyhof is a Canadian film producer from Toronto and is currently pursuing an MFA, Film in Creative Producing at Columbia University. He has a passion for storytelling across all genres and often finds himself connecting most-strongly with stories that seek to thrill and entertain their audiences through adventure beyond the ordinary, and characters that explode onto the screen. @nicholas.nyhof
We are proud that our film, ELEGY FOR A GLACIER, is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. However, the scale of the narrative we're telling requires additional support in order to properly tell it.
With one of the only accessible glaciers (technically, it lost this status a few years ago) in the continental US located in Colorado, we must travel cast and crew, and provide housing and food throughout the production.
We are set to begin production in late September and we're seeking an additional $10,000 USD to support the telling of this mother & daughter story set against the backdrop of a world that's dying and a fight for our future.
COVID-19 changed the way filmmakers operate around the world. In accordance with Columbia University’s Phase 2 Production Protocols and SAG-AFTRA COVID Protocols, we will be ensuring that all cast & crew provide proof of a negative PCR test no more than 72 hours before the start of production. Masks will be worn on set at all times, and any actors who appear unmasked on camera will be administered an antigen test prior to the start of each day.
A Covid Compliance Officer (CCO) will be present on set throughout the production to ensure rules and regulations are complied with for the safety of all cast and crew involved.
SPREAD THE WORD
We can only achieve our fundraising goals by leveraging the amazing network of people who support us. Please share our campaign via your social media, email, word-of-mouth, however you want! We can't do this without you!
Here are some examples of what to post. Feel free to copy and paste!
Help support the amazing filmmakers Stephanie Falkeis and @nicholas.nyhof by supporting their thesis film, ELEGY FOR A GLACIER, about a mother and daughter and the dying glacier between them. Join them on @seedandspark: bit.ly/elegyforaglacier
ELEGY FOR A GLACIER is an incredibly relevant film that needs to be told - we have seen unparallelled diaster as a result of climate change. Help be part of telling this outstanding story by supporting Stephanie Falkeis and @Nicholas.Nyhof in their @SeedAndSpark: bit.ly/elegyforaglacier
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
We couldn't do this without you.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Catering
Costs $2,500
Feeding our cast & crew is one of the most important and expensive things on any set.
Locations
Costs $4,000
The locations are essential to making this film work properly.
Production Supplies
Costs $2,000
Our production requires a lot of small production items to safely film!
Crew Labor
Costs $1,500
We want to pay our crew for their hard work on the film.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
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About This Team
Stephanie Falkeis is an Austrian director and screenwriter currently completing her MFA at Columbia University on a Fulbright Fellowship. She is an alum of the Telluride Film Festival Symposium and has recently been selected for the La Fémis Co-Production Atelier in Paris and the BAFTA Newcomers Program. Her historical Miniseries ‘The Invisible Sister’ received the prestigious ‘Heldinnen in Serie’ award and development funding from FISA Austria. Her short films have screened internationally in cinemas, galleries and festivals. From 2015-2018 she produced and curated the bilateral Austrian American Short Film Festival, which she also co-founded. At Columbia, she served as Annette Insdorf’s teaching assistant and is currently Co-Chair of Columbia Women in Film.
Nicholas Nyhof is a Canadian film producer from Toronto and is currently pursuing an MFA, Film in Creative Producing at Columbia University. He has a passion for storytelling across all genres and often finds himself connecting most-strongly with stories that seek to thrill and entertain their audiences through adventure beyond the ordinary, and characters that explode onto the screen. Prior to film, he spent several years as a Product Manager developing new features for Canada’s fastest growing TV service, and as the Audience Insights Analyst providing programming guidance for Canada’s largest TV Network.
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Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
ELEGY FOR A GLACIER is a contemporary western set in a disappearing landscape, with the dying glacier as the quintessential untamed frontier - wild, archaic, awe and fear inspiring - and dying much too fast, possibly already beyond saving. At the heart of the story is the relationship of an eco-activist mother and her glaciologist daughter who is called in to assess the glacier’s health and future on behalf of the town council of her hometown.
In the time capsule of her childhood home, the daughter discovers just how far her mother is willing to go in her activism to protect the glacier, while the mother discovers her daughter might just be the perfect tool to win this fight and tries to manipulate her into falsifying her scientific data.
The two strong-willed women are forced to reckon with their estrangement and difficult past as they find themselves on different sides of an ideological divide, and their differing stance on justice and conflicting approaches to saving the glacier and consequently their home reopens old familial wounds. While the town hopes to revamp the natural world to revilatize the economy for tourism, mother and daugther are forced to grapple with their sense of powerlessness in the face of a rapidly changing environment and the potential loss of their home.
The health of the earth’s glaciers often serve as the planet’s first warning sign of things to come. The future state of our planet has scared us more and more with each passing year as glaciers across the earth continue to recede and die - the implications of which we have yet to fully see. We are currently amidst one of the hottest summers on record. We are excited about this opportunity to tell this story about a small community that faces challenges we are all affected by on a global scale, and include the perspectives of glaciologists and activists.
Stephanie Falkeis is an Austrian director and screenwriter currently completing her MFA at Columbia University on a Fulbright Fellowship. She is a BAFTA Newcomers Talent and alum of the Telluride Film Festival Symposium. Her work often deals with notions of otherness and belonging, memory, and our relationship to the natural world. Her historical Miniseries ‘The Invisible Sister’ received the prestigious ‘Heldinnen in Serie’ award and development funding from FISA Austria. Her short films have screened internationally in cinemas, galleries and festivals. From 2015-2018 she produced and curated the bilateral Austrian American Short Film Festival, which she also co-founded.
Nicholas Nyhof is a Canadian film producer from Toronto and is currently pursuing an MFA, Film in Creative Producing at Columbia University. He has a passion for storytelling across all genres and often finds himself connecting most-strongly with stories that seek to thrill and entertain their audiences through adventure beyond the ordinary, and characters that explode onto the screen. @nicholas.nyhof
We are proud that our film, ELEGY FOR A GLACIER, is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. However, the scale of the narrative we're telling requires additional support in order to properly tell it.
With one of the only accessible glaciers (technically, it lost this status a few years ago) in the continental US located in Colorado, we must travel cast and crew, and provide housing and food throughout the production.
We are set to begin production in late September and we're seeking an additional $10,000 USD to support the telling of this mother & daughter story set against the backdrop of a world that's dying and a fight for our future.
COVID-19 changed the way filmmakers operate around the world. In accordance with Columbia University’s Phase 2 Production Protocols and SAG-AFTRA COVID Protocols, we will be ensuring that all cast & crew provide proof of a negative PCR test no more than 72 hours before the start of production. Masks will be worn on set at all times, and any actors who appear unmasked on camera will be administered an antigen test prior to the start of each day.
A Covid Compliance Officer (CCO) will be present on set throughout the production to ensure rules and regulations are complied with for the safety of all cast and crew involved.
SPREAD THE WORD
We can only achieve our fundraising goals by leveraging the amazing network of people who support us. Please share our campaign via your social media, email, word-of-mouth, however you want! We can't do this without you!
Here are some examples of what to post. Feel free to copy and paste!
Help support the amazing filmmakers Stephanie Falkeis and @nicholas.nyhof by supporting their thesis film, ELEGY FOR A GLACIER, about a mother and daughter and the dying glacier between them. Join them on @seedandspark: bit.ly/elegyforaglacier
ELEGY FOR A GLACIER is an incredibly relevant film that needs to be told - we have seen unparallelled diaster as a result of climate change. Help be part of telling this outstanding story by supporting Stephanie Falkeis and @Nicholas.Nyhof in their @SeedAndSpark: bit.ly/elegyforaglacier
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
We couldn't do this without you.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Catering
Costs $2,500
Feeding our cast & crew is one of the most important and expensive things on any set.
Locations
Costs $4,000
The locations are essential to making this film work properly.
Production Supplies
Costs $2,000
Our production requires a lot of small production items to safely film!
Crew Labor
Costs $1,500
We want to pay our crew for their hard work on the film.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Stephanie Falkeis is an Austrian director and screenwriter currently completing her MFA at Columbia University on a Fulbright Fellowship. She is an alum of the Telluride Film Festival Symposium and has recently been selected for the La Fémis Co-Production Atelier in Paris and the BAFTA Newcomers Program. Her historical Miniseries ‘The Invisible Sister’ received the prestigious ‘Heldinnen in Serie’ award and development funding from FISA Austria. Her short films have screened internationally in cinemas, galleries and festivals. From 2015-2018 she produced and curated the bilateral Austrian American Short Film Festival, which she also co-founded. At Columbia, she served as Annette Insdorf’s teaching assistant and is currently Co-Chair of Columbia Women in Film.
Nicholas Nyhof is a Canadian film producer from Toronto and is currently pursuing an MFA, Film in Creative Producing at Columbia University. He has a passion for storytelling across all genres and often finds himself connecting most-strongly with stories that seek to thrill and entertain their audiences through adventure beyond the ordinary, and characters that explode onto the screen. Prior to film, he spent several years as a Product Manager developing new features for Canada’s fastest growing TV service, and as the Audience Insights Analyst providing programming guidance for Canada’s largest TV Network.