Your Grandfather’s Road – Help make the world’s 1st crowd sourced movie!

Imagine a Malaysian movie made entirely from YOUR stories!

A good friend of mine, Manesh Nesaratnam is doing exactly that:

Your Grandfather’s Road is about turning YOUR stories, experiences and ideas into a movie BY the people, FOR the people.

We believe that life is infinitely more interesting than the imaginations of writers sitting in the insulated cubicles of the Klang Valley. Do these writers know about your life? About how you got that ugly scar on your back from antics with the boys? Or how it felt the first time he saw you without your tudung on? Or why your car seat smells the way it does?

Nobody knows these stories of yours… Except you. And we feel they are important stories to put on the big screen.

So here’s our invitation to you:

Let’s put our stories and experiences online and try to come up with an awesome movie script. Let’s talk about that script. Who do you think should act in it? Where shall we shoot this? What shall the character wear? Send us photos. Send us audition videos. Send us art direction ideas. Let’s make this movie a truly Malaysian movie, BY the people, FOR the people.

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I think this will be a truly awesome project – and the first of its kind in the world, from what I understand. It’s like taking the Web 2.0 concept of user generated content onto the silver screen :)

I think I will leave the rest of the talking to their gorgeous website – go check it out now!! :)

Manesh and I worked together a bit on on Sepuluh (video below), and I couldn’t think of a better director for the job :) He’s put together a great team too! They’ve got great heart, and a true dedication to the best of the human spirit :)

ps – here are links to their Facebook and Twitter :D

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