Director
Dion Ventress risks travels to Kosovo, to bring you the historic first ever
horror movie to be shot in the country, KATUNAR (the word is an Albanian slang
which in English means “Hillbilly”or “Villager”.
Kosovo
might be known for war and strife, but Ventress plans to change the just over 5
year old country with an Albanian/English feature film which will have the
Republic of Kosovo known more for presenting a popcorn thriller, than Europe’s
poorest country with a 45% unemployment rate.
KATUNAR
(ka-toon-ar) is the first horror feature to be made in Kosovo.
Canadian director Dion Ventress brings to the screen a small town suspense
thriller.
After
finding out of the passing of her father, Adelina returns back to Kosovo and
finds she’s inherited her father’s home in Kaçanik. On her return, she
not only deals with paranormal activity in the home, doors that don’t open, and
a mysterious legend of people living in caves since the war in a cliff on the
edge of town. Once people start disappearing, Adelina has to figure out
what is real and what is myth.
From
the Director:
“My
name is Dion Ventress and have worked in film and television production in
Canada for over two decades. In the television aspect of my career, I
have worked from home shopping, to Canadian network news, to sports, and also
launching the first streaming superstation at a time when the only things that
were being streamed was WORLD OF WARCRAFT and religious sermons. Television
forced me to work on tight budgets and timelines, which translated into my own
productions (music videos and home video documentaries). Having one of Canada's
most eclectic private film archives (of 16mm, 8mm, and 35mm), this also had taken
me to four different countries, and involved with helping bring other features
into the Toronto film marketplace including the only 35mm 3-D polarized feature
from the 90's to Canadian audiences.
Having
a taste for global music, I started being introduced to Albanian pop, and ended
up going to Kosovo in 2008 with profits I had made from a successful film tour
of Finland.
Through
meeting various people in Kosovo's media industry, I was impressed with the
talent in the country, and technically what could be pulled off. I was
asked by a company years later to work on a script for an action film.
Sadly the company folded, and I returned last year to investigate how possible
it was to do a feature film in the country. Technically, could it be
possible?
Indeed
it was as the same kind of equipment was in the country, however primarily with
a focus on commercials, music videos and local productions.
Spending
lots of my own capital, within a 12 month period, I established our
headquarters in the country and made alliances with the country's best
production houses in order to not only make a feature film, but to make
something that would and could be seen for a worldwide audience.
On
top of it, the country is in desperate need of jobs. Kosovo is one of the
poorest countries in Europe, and close to a 45% unemployment rate.
Your
contribution not only goes towards making the first horror film for the
country, but it also will provide employment. I have seen how investment
in my own country's film industry (Canada) has helped make us a worldwide force
in feature film production. My belief is Kosovo has the talent and
equipment to have the same output.
How
often are we able to say we are involved with history, or touching the lives of
the people in a country by turning out a small budget film?
YOU
CAN - And that's we need your help!”
Teaser
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwQgHFcdXKM
Campaign
Link: http://igg.me/at/katunar/x/8730882
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katunarthemovie
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KATUNARMOVIE
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