Hacker Cinema
Inocente
2012 · Film · documentary · 40 min
Directed by Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine
INOCENTE is a personal and vibrant coming of age story about a young artist's determination never to surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be caged by being an undocumented immigrant forced to live homeless for the last nine years. Color is her personal revolution and its sweep on her canvases creates a world that looks nothing like her own dark past. INOCENTE is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot of the new face of homelessness in America: children. The challenges are staggering, but the hope in her story proves that the hand she has been dealt does not define her, her dreams do.
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You can watch the entire short film for free (legally) here: http://www.mtv.com/videos/inocente/1702321/playlist.jhtml
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the film finished and accepted to film festivals before they started the kickstarter project? The KS funds mostly went to finishing a website and companion material to the movie. Excerpt from the kickstarter link below.
"INOCENTE has been accepted to several film festivals including Hot Docs International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, the Melbourne International Film Festival, and the San Antonio Film Festival. It has also already won two awards: the Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking at the Arizona International Film Festival and the Short Film Spirit Award at Awareness Fest. Thanks to the generosity of our producers and post house we have completed the film's production and editing but still need to pay deferred costs and to complete final deliverables (creating HDCam tapes, Digibeta tapes, Blu-rays, and DVDs in the correct formats) for TV and community film screenings. We also need to complete production of a website that provides information on Inocente, the film, screening dates, the filmmakers, and the issues documented in the film. We also are designing and printing posters and key art to help market and promote the film at festivals, screenings, and special events. Finally, we are also writing free, downloadable companion curricula for teachers and creating an arts workshop template for community organizations that will incorporate the arts into core subjects and explore the themes and issues of the film to make it more attractive to the educational market."