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‘Night of the Zoopocalypse’ Filmmakers on Making the Most of a Limited Budget, Creating an Original Aesthetic and Horror Flick Rites of Passage
Directors Ricardo Curtis and Rodrigo Perez-Castro and writer Steve Hoban on the challenges of making a CG indie and the virtues of a limited budget.
For the film’s AFM market debut, filmmakers Curtis and Perez-Castro and writer-producer Steve Hoban spoke with us about the incredible amount of work it took to get their indie feature made, keeping things PG for family audiences and the rites of passage that come with the horror genre. So we had to be resourceful, and a bit masochistic, to utilize every kind of equity, debt, incentive, and pre-sale to finance and then we further complicated things by making the film with studios in five different cities and artists in over a dozen different locations. Hoban: The North American story-telling sensibilities from the script and direction combined with very high-quality European artistic talent are what made it possible for us to deliver a movie with international appeal and first-class production values that far exceed what we would have been able to do in just one country.
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