The Master Cleanse

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Composer We need to pay Dmitri Glickman and his musicians for our score!	$25.00 per day	20	18	Quantity
Sound Designer Maybe the most crucial part of post. Help us make the movie come alive through sound.	$50.00 per hour	50	41	Quantity
Sound Editor Audiences will not stand for uneven, lifeless sound!	$17.00 per hour	50	47	Quantity

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	Colorist Help our movie look its finest.	$70.00 per hour	16	12	Quantity	<p>The person responsible for "color correction" making sure all the colors match!</p>
	Editor "The essence of cinema is editing." -Francis Coppola	$40.00 per day	30	29	Quantity

Total value raised : $1,051

Wishlist total : $6,170

About the project

Daniel Goldberg was born and raised in the neighborhood and knows Park Slope, Brooklyn inside out. He’s a practicing meditator and proud veteran of many spiritual and self-help communities, having visited Insight Meditation Society, Ganas, Cosm, Maharishi University, and Omega Institute. When he and Ittai Orr set about inventing the fictional world of Manifest Refuge, they both wanted to create a wryly humorous vision that would poke fun at some of the excesses of such “intentional communities”. But as darkly satirical and absurd as that vision is, it’s also imbued with a great deal of compassion for the characters. The Master Cleanse is, at its core, a story about a guy and a girl trying to define the limits of their feelings for one another. Where does deep, profound friendship overlap with love? Daniel and Ittai felt that the perversely idealistic world of Manifest Refuge was the perfect place to examine such questions in a funny and provocative way.

Synopsis

Welcome to Manifest Refuge. Founded in 1996 by Dr. Emma Horowitz in a Park Slope brownstone, its members are as diverse as the neighborhood itself. But they all have one thing in common: The Master Cleanse. Jim, an outsider, thinks commune member Brook might be the love of his life, but will this seemingly innocuous ritual stand between them? As Jim learns more about Brook’s “soul friends” and their shared rite of passage, he gradually begins to realize what he suspected all along: The Master Cleanse has nothing to do with cayenne, lemon, and maple syrup.

ABOUT THIS TEAM

Director, co-writer, and co-producer Daniel Goldberg is a staff critic at Slant Magazine, where he reviews current TV series. Having written several feature-length screenplays, he decided to take matters into his own hands by directing, co-writing and producing a short film that could be brought to the screen by independent film audiences rather than studio executives. He spends his days dreaming about Manifest Refuge, and cannot wait to bring this strange world to life.

Josh Fisher is a New York based cinematographer. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he began studying film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2001. Josh works on commercials, television, music videos, documentaries, and theatrical features. Josh’s first theatrical feature film as director of photography, Hunter, starring Giles Matthey (True Blood) was shot in 2011.

Production schedule

Friday, March 15, 2013 to Sunday, March 17, 2013

Distribution plan

Seed & Spark, Withoutabox (April 2013). Hulu and amazon to follow shortly. Park Slope Film Festival (Summer 2013), Manhattan Short Film Festival (September 27-Oc 6 2013), Strange Beauty Film Festival (November 2013) Cork Film Festival (November 2013), New Hampshire Film Festival (Fall 2013), Sundance Film Festival (Winter 2014), Slamdance (Winter 2014), Indie Boots Film Festival (Spring 2014), TreBeCa Film Festival (Spring 2014), Brooklyn Film Festival (Spring 2014) Hoboken Film Festival (Summer 2014), NY Rooftop Films (Summer 2014)