Crowd Funding Campaign Launching for Pale Face Movie Project

A crowd-funding campaign is launching Oct. 14, 2024, for the Safe Harbor Films indie movie project that will take award-winning science-fiction novella, Pale Face, to the big screen. The novella was written by Utah author W.D. Kilpack III. He is also writing the screenplay.

To accomplish this, Safe Harbor Films has put together a crowd-funding campaign to move forward with the Pale Face project. The initial goal is $10,000 to put together the legal documents necessary to implement plans and secure talent in order to move toward shooting, which is hoped to start in Spring or Summer 2025. If more is made through the campaign, then that will get the production further along the path.

Safe Harbor Films President Tony A. Angelo said, "We are very passionate about Pale Face! It's not just a movie project, it's a cultural movement. It's a gripping science-fiction alien-adduction thriller with a Native American hero. It's the kind of film that mainstream Hollywood claims can't be made — an authentically Native American story in a genre that traditionally ignores the Native American.”

The novella Pale Face received Honorable Mention from the L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest and won the International Firebird Book Award. International Best-Selling Author Dave Wolverton said, Pale Face is "pretty darned good. I like it. I love how [Hector] sees the aliens and the white men in the same light. A nice, brutal, ironic twist ... this is good stuff."

Award-winning Director Tom Konkle said, “The thing that resonated with me is that we’ve all felt like we were in two worlds sometimes, but we don’t belong in either one. Something that science fiction does really well is talk about truths in an abstract background that we can all understand. Having Hector, a Native American character, is cool, and forces him to plant himself in one world or the other. As a director, working with a story that is about something is much better, where there’s some meat on the story. The idea of a Western-Native American-Sci-Fi thing is cool, but it’s also about something. The Native American setting is not window dressing. It’s intrinsic to the story.”

Kilpack said, "It’s just humbling to have Pale Face receive this kind of interest. I learned when I was young that I am part Cherokee, which started my interest in all things Native American. So, a little bit of man behind the curtain: I have Native American characters or cultural aspects in a lot of things I write. I’ve been criticized for it over the years, but it’s what I would want to read, so I stuck to my guns."

The crowd-funding campaign allows people to take an active role in bringing a kind of film to the screen that has not been seen before. Of the 1,600 top-grossing films between 2007 and 2022, less than one-quarter of one percent of all speaking roles went to Native American characters. In fact, the percentage of Native American roles did not exceed 1% across any of the years evaluated. Contributing can allow people first access to see how this groundbreaking film is made, VIP tickets to the premiere, having their name in the credits, personalized thank-you gifts, and much more. For more information go to www.SafeHarborFilms.com/crowdfund

About Kilpack
Kilpack is an award-winning and critically acclaimed internationally published writer, with works appearing in print, online, radio and television. He has been editor and/or publisher of 19 news and literary publications, both online and in print. He received both his bachelor's and master's degrees from Westminster University. As an undergrad, he double-majored in communication and philosophy, while completing the Honors Program. As a graduate student, he earned a master of professional communication with a writing emphasis. He was also a high-performing athlete, qualifying for international competition in Greco-Roman wrestling. For 25 years, he was a communication professor and a nationally recognized wrestling coach. He is happily married to his high-school sweetheart and is father to five children, as well as helping to raise five step-children. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he continues to live, consult and educate. For more information go to www.Kilpack.net.

About Konkle
Konkle, originally from Virginia (now living in Los Angeles), has more than 30 years of experience in the entertainment industry. He started as a comedic writer and actor, acting with the likes of John Cleese, Zach Galifianakis, and Emmy award winner Louis Anderson. He is also a director, author, studio staff writer and producer. He directed, co-wrote and starred in the award-winning film Trouble Is My Business. He has directed, written and starred in many projects, including writing for the Warner Bros series Be Cool Scooby-Doo. He has written and produced 19 screenplays for TV and short and industrial films, and has guest-starred on TV shows like The Office, Community, and Arrested Development. He has a thorough understanding of production, post-production, distribution and promotion, with more than 100 project credits. He has also worked for several major networks. He is co-owner of Lumen Actus Productions. For more information go to www.LumenActus.com.

About Safe Harbor Films
The name of the company, Safe Harbor Films, is not just a catchy turn of phrase: it is a mission, a mantra, a way of doing business, a way of life. A primary goal at Safe Harbor Films is not just to produce quality entertainment, but to do it in an atmosphere that is safe and secure to let creativity flourish and people to realize their potential. Whether a veteran of the industry or a rookie, we believe in the power of opportunity and generosity. For more information go to www.SafeHarborFilms.com.