BREADCRUMB VERSION

BREADCRUMB VERSION

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    2. Go full screen, or even better screen-mirror to your television, or even better screen-mirror at your local IMAX theater.

    3. Stop watching when you are feeling good about the project and simply write a check or make a wire transfer ASAP.

Welcome REsource Enabled Humans

  1. The greatest love story of all time

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Duration: 49 sec.

  • An introduction to the greatest love story of all time, and space, and matter, for that matter:

    • Welcome

    • The logline.

2. THE GREATEST PROJECT OF ALL TIME

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Duration: 1:04 min. | 25 min. remaining.

  • An introduction to the greatest project of all time, and space, and matter for that matter.

    • Format & Length: 90 min. feature film.

    • Genre: science fiction, romantic comedy, hiding as a documentary.

    • Comps, “X meets Y”

    • Setting: NYC

    • Story Structure: The Main Characters, History of Love in the Universe.

    • Rating & Tone: For Mature Audiences

3. Hyper-link cinema

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Duration: 50 sec. | 24 min. remaining.

  • This one is pretty dense! But it’s helpful to know that there are unique films styled just like I. LOVE. NYC you can watch.

    • Hyper-Link Style: several interconnected & interdependent characters & subplots.

    • Singular Theme: several subjects illustrating a single theme is a great way to demonstrate diverse examples of love in NYC.

    • Similar Movies: Love Actually, Amelie, Short-cuts, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Pulp Fiction, Hannah & Her Sisters.

4. Story Basics

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Duration: 2:02 | 23 min. remaining.

  • The foundational elements of the story:

    • The Love Anomaly.

    • The Secret Universal Code for True Love.

    • The Narrator’s Mission: Secure the secret universal code for true love so he can save the future universe from extinguishing.

    • Stakes: The end of the future universe.

    • The Obstacle: Humans, you are dead, you have no idea what love is, and no idea The Love Anomaly even happened, but you must know to help him.

    • Narrative Challenge: The narrator must send a signal back in time to tell the story of The Love Anomaly to humans living when it happened to receive their help in securing the secret universal code for true love and saving the future universe.

5. the Narrative Questions

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Duration: 39 sec. | 21 min. remaining.

  • A level-set on what the final story will reveal:

    • How did The True Lovers make the Love Anomaly happen?

    • How did they generate True Love’s secret code when they were genetically incapable?

    • What is the secret universal code for True Love?

    • Who is trying to block his transmission, hack him for the secret code, and end the future universe?

    • How can the audience help the narrator?

    • What is True Love?

    • Who is the narrator?

6. Main Characters: The True Lovers

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Duration: 56 sec. | 20 min. remaining.

  • You are going to love these two idiots. Enjoy!

    • Scarlett & Earnest, the TRUE LOVERS at the epicenter of our epic tale, are a mismatched millennial mess.

    • The narrator must share all the cringy details of their relationship history to put The Love Anomaly in context.

7. THE OBSTACLES

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Duration: 2:18 min. | 19 min. remaining.

  • The basic obstacles in our narrator’s way:

    • Time-casting challenges.

    • Dark forces in the universe are desperate to block his transmission, hack him for the code, and extinguish the future universe.

    • The clock is ticking, the narrator only has a 90-minute window to tell you the story, get your help, and save the future universe.

    • Artificial Intelligence: AI is the only tech capable of receiving his transmission, and it totally sucks.

    • Scarlet & Earnest are a total mess and he must make them look incredible to inspire us to help him.

8. THE REAL OBSTACLES

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Duration: 5 min. | 17 min. remaining.

  • The obstacles behind the obstacles:

    • The obstacle behind the obstacle…YOU!

    • Humans know nothing about the Histoverse (history of the universe), their own avoidant evolutionary history away from true love, or the root energy of everything—love.

    • Humans are also at their predictable peak ignorance due to their historical genetic avoidance of true love, and thus, have extremely bad taste and the attention span of gnats.

    • So, to obtain our help, the narrator must compromise his super-intelligent, super-creator genius and tell this story at your level—a grandiose, commercial, romantic epic.

    • More than knowing it all, you must experience it all, as the narrator’s actual goal is to tell such an amazing story that audiences around the world exude so much of true love’s code while watching it that it’s enough for him to harness it and save the future universe.

9. STORY CATCHUP

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Duration: 1:26 sec. | 12 min. remaining.

  • Summary of story points so far:

    • You are not alone in the universe.

    • There is a Secret Universal Code for True Love, it’s very important, and you have no clue it exists.

    • Humans made fateful evolutionary choices in their past that made them genetically incapable of True Love.

    • Somehow, Scarlet & Earnest, our True Lovers, were able to make it happen at the instance of The Love Anomaly.

    • Because you were incapable of True Love, and you had no idea The Love Anomaly happened, you destroyed yourselves at some point soon after Scarlett & Ernest did their thing.

    • An alien narrator from the future is going to timecast the story of how The Love Anomaly happened through a shitty AI interface so we can help him save the future universe.

    • It’s all a narrative hack by the alien narrator intended to make the audience feel so strongly about his story that they overcome their genetic lack, and exude so much of true love’s code that he can use it to save the future universe.

10. THE BIG REVEAL

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Duration: 2:13 min. | 11 min. remaining.

  • The secret story inside the inside story.

    • The Narrator has a VERY BIG secret. And you must invest to know it.

    • The film will provide undeniable, irrefutable experience proof that the arc of the universe bends towards love. And you must invest to know it.

    • You can save the future universe if you invest in the project. Do it! For Love!

11. THE PRODUCTION

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Duration: 1:11 min. | 9 min. remaining.

  • Some production basics:

    • Documentary production style—shoot, edit, repeat until it’s amazing.

    • 6-month iterative production window.

    • No location sound and a small medium-format stereoscopic still camera system will provide unique access, and high-quality images—all at a very low cost.

12. the visual experience

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Duration: 1:12 min. | 7 min. remaining.

  • Basics on the visual format and style of I. LOVE. NYC:

    • Medium-format stereoscopic still images will give us very high quality at a very low cost.

    • MASSIVELY MULTI-MEDIA: The narrator is an alien super-intelligent, super-creator who must communicate to us through an AI interface, which will allow us to employ a uniquely mixed media experience for the audience.

13. spatial cinema

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Duration: 1:16 min. | 6 min. remaining.

  • The basics of Spatial Cinema:

    • AR/VR (VisionPro, MetaQuest) and dome theaters (Sphere) will make old-school 3D very cool again.

    • A closer look at our camera system.

14. human-centric production

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Duration: 31 sec. | 5 min. remaining.

  • Our production philosophy:

    • People first.

    • People last.

    • Maybe some AI in the middle.

15. the team

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Duration: 53 sec. | 4.5 min remaining.

  • A closer look at our team and production approach:

    • A core team of discipline-based directors.

    • Distributed global network of creative talent.

    • Most of the team are long-time collaborators of director Ken Hamm.

    • The cast will be a diverse group of actors/comedians/writers who will not only play their parts on-screen but act as story editors.

    • The team is old-er, um, mature, um, experienced.

16. the schedule

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Duration: 27 sec. | 4 min. remaining.

  • A closer look at our schedule:

    • Pre-production has begun. The core team is assembled. Fundraising is in process.

    • Casting, visual tests, and story outlining in March.

    • Iterative production begins in late April. Shoot, edit, and repeat, through to September, when we submit to festivals and distributors.

17. distribution & recoupment

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Duration: 59 sec. | 3.5 min. remaining.

  • A broad look at our distribution and recoupment scenarios:

    3 paths with many directions:

    1. Big distributor and wide release. (You never know.)

    2. Medium/Small distributor and limited release. (Our practical goal.)

    3. Festivals and self-distribution (The backstop.)

    We intend to be the break-out indie hit of 2026!

18. budget & financing

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Duration: 1:51 min. | 2.5 min remaining.

  • The basics of our budgeting and financial approach:

    • All you need is love—and several hundred thousand dollars in cash, deferrals, and equity.

    • Co-ownership model between investors and creative team.

    • Bigger is not better: limited exposure, low stakes, and high creative freedom should amount to the best possible return on investment.

    • This is an ultra-low-budget independent art film (borderline experimental) and you should factor this into your investment decision.

    • Strong genres, a powerful story, and an experienced team should translate into cinematic success.

    • There will be perks!

19. do it…for love!

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Duration: 36 sec. | Yay! You made it!

  • What are you waiting for, help us make this movie!

    • You are financing cinematic genius.

    • You are saving the future universe.

    • Do it, for love!