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BIG-FOOT’S STORY

By Nurbek BERDYBEKOV, Tilek CHERIKOV

Action/Adventure - Development 2010

Everything is possible, it is only necessary to believe in miracles, they do happen. Each woman wants love, let it be a snowwoman or a TV blonde or even a scientist. Moreover, there are all three women here; they all fall in love with one man, around whom this love story of a Big-Foot was turning ar

- Year of production
- 2010
- Genres
- Action/Adventure, Comedy
- Countries
- KYRGYZSTAN
- Languages
- ENGLISH, RUSSIAN
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 95 mn
- Director(s)
- Nurbek BERDYBEKOV, Tilek CHERIKOV
- Writer(s)
- Tilek CHERIKOV, Timur CHERIKOV
- Producer(s)
- Timur CHERIKOV (Green Light Cinema), Tilek CHERIKOV (Green Light Cinema)
- Synopsis
- 1. EXTENDED SYNOPSIS (Treatment)
  (2-3 pages)
  - BEGINNING (exposition, starting point)
  Sevan Lake, Armenia. Our times.
  Michael – 35 years old. An ambitious, haughty, professional Moscow journalist.
  A scandal journalist Michael investigates one of myths on Loch Ness monster in Sevan Lake, nobody likes him, because he refutes all legends, myths. He works as a staff reporter of a Moscow newspaper, where savourly describes all sad attempts to embellish a dull reality. What can people do in order to create myths! He once again discloses a myth in Armenia, arrives home to Moscow from Armenia . He receives a new assignment from the editorial office to fly to Issyk-Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan.
  - THE END OF THE FIRST / BEGINNING OF THE SECOND SCENE
  Issyk-Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan. Our times.
  Hotel owner, 54 years old, a businessman, a creative person, fond of his work.
  A small hotel is opened in the most beautiful mountains of Kyrgyzstan. A hotel owner arranges a presentation and invites mass media, guests, etc. The hotel starts functioning. One day a hotel cooker notices huge footsteps near the hotel, he calls the hotel owner, the hotel owner takes photos and hangs such photos in the hotel hall. Newspapers find out about it and send journalists to investigate this fact, besides, new facts appear, people in the village saw how a large person, 2 meters in height, walks near their houses.
  Cornelia, 27 years old. A young girl, a scientist, sincere, fond of science.
  Michael and a young girl-anthropologist and other enthusiasts, who believe in a Big-Foot, arrive at the hotel. Everybody vividly discusses a photo, video pictures, gypsum footstep imprints, evidence of the villagers. Michael comes into the hall and states aloud that all these facts are nonsense and fiction, there is no Big-Foot and I’ll prove it within the nearest three days. Everybody stops speaking, a scientist starts to argue with him. After all Michael leaves banging the door. A girl Cornelia, a scientist from the Scientific-Research Institute, believes in a Big-Foot. But she likes Michael, a courageous young man, rather attractive, though repugnant. Cornelia does not know how to make friends with him, because he challenged her, refuting the opinions of scientific enthusiasts.
  - BASIC EVENTS OF THE SECOND SCENE
  Cornelia offers Michael to form an expedition looking for a Big-Foot, he agrees, they take a guide from the locals and two TV journalists. Michael ignores Corny, he is fond of a blonde from TV. Corny is jealous and snaps during the expedition, the expedition gives no results, they have investigated several caves and no traces were found.
  TV blonde, 30 years old. A typical vamp, a journalist, TV star.
  Michael is angry with Corny, that she interfered with his relations with TV blonde, he starts to take revenge. He pretends that he leaves for a city and starts to keep an eye on the hotel. And soon he finds out a secret of a Big-Foot.
  And proves that everything is fiction, figment, there is no Big-Foot, he shows the whole world pictures taken by a hidden camera, how a hotel owner puts on clothes of a Big-Foot and his daughter Corny played a role of a scientist, supporting this version. Disappointed people leave the hotel. Michael stays with a TV blonde at the hotel in order to spend a weekend and to return to Moscow. Cornelia leaves in tears.
  - THE END OF THE SECOND / BEGINNING OF THE THIRD SCENE (culmination)
  Michael goes out to the street and sees Big-Foot steps, he semi-drunken follows the footsteps and roars with laughter. He shouts: “Poor Yorik, these are your footsteps”, footsteps lead to the grove, his TV blonde watches him. He comes across with a Big-Foot, he shouts: “Stop it. It is not funny. It is stupid. The circus is over, show has died”. He pulls a Big-Foot’s head, pinches his skin, beats on his head. A Big-Foot silently looks at him, stroking him. Michael pulls a head of a Big-Foot and notices that this Big-Foot is a female. And she falls in love with this pleasant-looking blond man with blue-eyes. A female Big-Foot puts him on her shoulders and goes to the mountains.
  - THE END
  A TV blonde starts shouting that Michael is stolen, the hotel owner goes out of the hotel. A father runs to his daughter Corny and knocks at her door, telling her that a Big-Foot has just stolen a journalist. Corny calls TV, mass media, but they only laugh: guess something better, let it be that UFOs have stolen him. Nobody believes them. As in a fairy-tale: a wolf, a wolf, a wolf.
  There is nothing to do for these three people, but to form an expedition in order to save Michael...
  And Michael has to prove a female Big-Foot that he is not her choice. And a female Big-Foot wants love so much, because she is a woman.
  The expedition is a success, they save Michael. Michael understands that he was mistaken in his choice and looks at Cornelia in a new light.
  2. CHARACTERISTICS OF CHARACTERS
  Principal characters:
  Michael, an ambitious, haughty, professional journalist.
  A hotel owner, a businessman, a creative person, fond of his business.
  Cornelia, a young girl, sincere, fond of science. .
  TV blonde, a typical vamp, a journalist, TV star.
  A female Big-Foot, she is also a woman, though a snowwoman.
- Partners & financing
- Houseoffilm US distribution company
- Production schedule
- March-April 2010 preparation period
  May-August 2010 production
  September-October 2010 postproduction
- Beginning of shooting
- May 01, 2010