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JUDE

Science-fiction - Development 2021

When 15 year old teenagers around the globe are compelled on a mysterious Pied-Piper-like pilgrimage, an overprotective single mother must choose between her duty as a parent and the fate of the human race.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Science-fiction, Thriller, Environmental
- Countries
- AUSTRALIA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Writer(s)
- Jett TATTERSALL, Summer HICKS
- Producer(s)
- Laura SIVIS (Courage Films Pty Ltd)
- Synopsis
- Spaceships appear across the globe on the day Ada (20) becomes pregnant.
  
  The spacecraft hover passively in the stratosphere, so people adjust and carry on.
  
  15 years later, Ada, now an overprotective single mother, is in denial that the visitors are silently communicating with her teenage son, Jude (15).
  
  Secluded and home-schooled, Jude rebels.
  He asserts his independence, makes new friends and finds his first love, with Mabel (16).
  
  Meanwhile, Jude’s doctor researches children conceived on arrival day, including his own daughter, who has disappeared.
  
  When 15yo teenagers around the globe respond to a Pied-Piper-like call and commence a pilgrimage to the spacecraft, Ada must accept the doctor’s findings and confront her worst fears, then choose between her duty as a parent and the fate of the human race
  
  The visitors have a message that can save the human race, but will anybody listen?
- Partners & financing
- Finance Plan
  
  34% Australian Tax Offset
  38% Government Equity Funds (State and Federal)
  8.1% Services Deal
  
  Seeking 20%
  as Private Equity / MG / presales / Post and Equipment / Gap
  
  Comparables for themes and story concept
  ARRIVAL, KNOWING, THE HOST, SIGNS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, INTERSTELLAR
- Production schedule
- 4 weeks of production
  
  Start date to be confirmed ~ May-June 2022
- Beginning of shooting
- May 31, 2022
- End of shooting
- Aug 31, 2022