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Last hours to become involved in our short film Doris and the Pennies from Heaven, starring Honor Blackman as Doris!

Do you want to show-off among your friends? Get your name in the final credits!

Do you want exclusive materials from the film? Get a bunch of official stills or copies of the screenplay and poster signed by the cast and crew!

Have you ever dreamed of being part of the crew of a film? You can become associate producer!

These and more perks at http://igg.me/p/77371

We’d like to welcome to our team our new Associate Producer Vasileios Papatheocharis! Welcome to the team!! - There’s still some time left for anyone else that wants to donate or join our team- http://igg.me/p/77371- Polaris Team- HQ

Only 5 days left to become part of our short film Doris and the Pennies from Heaven starring Honor Blackman!

You can choose to see your name roll at the final credits, have a copy of the script and the poster of the film signed by the cast and crew, get tickets to the premiere at the British Film Institute and hang out with the cast and crew, become an associate producer or even have your company publicised in our publicity packs all over the world!

Visit our project page and check these and our other perks at:

http://igg.me/p/77371

Thank you!

Since its very beginnings, there has been an intense debate of what should be the aesthetic use and the function of cinema. This debate has become to be known as the Lumière/Méliès Dichotomy, due to its principal representatives: the brothers Lumière and Méliès.

Auguste and Louis Lumière, that were initially photographers, thought that cinema should represent reality as it is, and should not have any aesthetic or artistic purposes. They filmed moments of life, such as some workers leaving a factory (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, 1895), a man watering the plants (The Sprinkler Sprinkled, 1895), or the entrance of a train in the station (Train Pulling into a Station, 1895).

On the other hand, George Méliès, an illusionist and magician, found cinema a new way of portraying fantasies and creating illusions, with films like A Trip to the Moon (1902) or The Impossible Voyage (1904). He created surprising scenes with resources such as jump-cuts or double exposures, in what we could consider the beginnings of special effects.

These conceptions are still a source of debate to some filmmakers and cinema academics, while for others this frontier is not so clear and these approaches do not need to be exclusive of each other.

Where does reality start and where does fantasy? Isn’t the very fact that the Lumière brothers filmed reality what made it a non-reality already? Isn’t it possible to portray reality through several props, costumes or special effects that recreate realities to perfection?

What do you think?

We’re very happy to announce that we will be producing two music videos for the renowned Spanish music producer Paco Ortega in Madrid in the coming weeks. We will be flying to Madrid pretty soon to shoot both videos at same time for his new Album!

Stay tuned for more info!

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Do you remember the ‘Choose your own adventure’ books? Surely most of you have been hooked on them trying to decide if choosing the left hand door would take you out of the pyramid or to the monstrous mummy.

Tim Curry starring Clue (1985) was one of the pioneering interactive films, as it portrayed three different alternative endings; despite that, you could not really choose them, as each cinema chose one randomly. You have other films that show you different versions of the same story, such as Blind Chance (1987) or Run, Lola, Run (1998), but they don’t offer the possibility to choose which one to see. However, there has been a tendency lately to make ‘choose your own adventure’ films, like Bob Doucette (director), William H. Macy and Frankie Muniz (voices) The Snowman (2007) or Bob Gale’s Mr. Payback (1995) but unfortunately they are not widespread yet.

Do you think it is a good idea to be able to interact with a film? Would you like to have more interactive ‘choose your own adventure’ films and what kind of films (horror, adventure, romance…) would you like to watch? How do you think they could be shown on cinemas? 

We only have 10 days left to raise funds for our short film, Doris and the Pennies from Heaven!

It is a light comedy short film about Doris (Honor Blackman), a retired lady whose life takes an unexpected and peculiar turn in less than 48 hours, what could possibly happen to her?

If you want to know more and get involved in the film, visit:

http://www.indiegogo.com/dorisandthepenniesfromheaven

This is Mrs. Honor Blackman’s outsanding acting career. She will star as the main character Doris Widmark in our short film Doris and the Pennies from Heaven.

Honor Blackman was born in Plaistow, Newham, London. As a present for her sixteenth birthday her father gave her two options: a bicycle or elocution classes. She chose the elocution classes and thanks to them Honor discovered the world of theatre and poetry and her teacher found great talent in her. She was enrolled (as her teacher suggested) in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

After graduating, and as it was advised to her, she auditioned for the West End play The Guinea Pig and was offered a secondary role, but when the main actress fell ill, she stepped in and took over her with great success. After that she received two main character roles in two West End plays. 

Her first film appearance was a non-speaking part in Fame is the Spur, followed by Quartet and So Long at the Fair, Jason and the Argonauts, A Night to Remember and The Square Peg.

After that she starred in several television series like The Vise for the Danziger Brothers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr Presents, The New Adventures of Charlie Chan, African Patrol, The Invisible Man, The Pursuers, Kraft Mystery Theatre and The Saint (opposite Roger Moore), among others.

She was appointed the new star of The Avengers, playing the role of the sexy, strong-willed and smart Dr. Cathy Gale alongside Patrick Macnee, role that projected her into fame.

After 43 episodes of The Avengers and thanks to the fame this role gave her, Honor returned to cinema starring as Pussy Galore in Guy Hamilton’s James Bond film Goldfinger (1964) alongside Sean Connery. 

Honor continued to work in films, TV and stage work. Among these works are Life at the Top, Shalako, The Last Grenade, a film version of DH Lawrence’s The Virgin and the Gypsy, the horror movie Fright, Columbo, To The Devil A Daughter, Robin’s Nest, Crown Court, The Cat and The Canary, Never The Twain, Lace, Minder, and Dr Who.

In 1990 Honor was cast in The Upper Hand, ITV’s new sitcom, playing Laura West in 94 episodes for six years.

From 2000 she continued her appearances in Bridget Jones’s Diary, and popular TV shows Dr Terribles House Of Horror, New Tricks, Midsommer Murders or The Royal Coronation Street.

From 2005 to 2006 she combined film and theatre, appearing in the black comedy film, Colour Me Kubrick with John Malkovich in 2005, opening Cameron Macintosh’s My Fair Lady in Manchester and Birmingham and performing four one-woman shows nationwide, as well as starring in the West End Lyric Theatre’s play Cabaret in 2007.

Among her most recent projects we find Hotel Babylon (2009), Hotel Caledonia (2010), Reuniting the Rubins (2010) and I, Anna (2012), as well as more one-woman shows at the theatre and her single, The Star who Fell from Grace (2009).

This biography was made following the one you can find at her official website:

http://www.honorblackman.co.uk/index.htm

So, check it for more detailed information of her brilliant acting career!

More pics of her to follow! These are exciting times at Polaris!!

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