Wednesday, August 20, 2014

UK filmmaker's search for Dracula's descendants


Like Van Helsing in the famous novel, a team of UK filmmakers is to hunt Count Dracula, or more accurately, his family.  Production company Seraphim Pictures is crowdfunding its feature-length documentary I Am Dracula, which will see a team travel to Romania to discover and interview the current descendents of the historical Count Dracula - Vlad the Impaler.  The film will meet with members of three families with a claim to the name, as well as genealogists and Dracula historians to assess whether a direct blood line exists, and if so, who carries it today.

The film is the brainchild of company directors Daniel Lyddon and James Morgan, who felt that with Universal Pictures soon to release Dracula Untold - a film which draws heavily on the history of Count Dracula - this year would be the perfect time to delve into his family tree - the so-called "Draculesti".  Daniel Lyddon had this to say:

"We were inspired by Universal Pictures taking their cue from the real-life Vlad Dracula and thought we might take it one step further by looking into his present, as well as his history."

The film will be released on multiple Video on Demand (VoD) platforms before the end of the year to make the most of public interest in the subject matter following the release of Dracula Untold.

At the moment we're raising the budget via Kickstarter at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2067205325/i-am-dracula/

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