Cinema Australia seldom reports on crowdfunding campaigns for local films, but every now and then we like to throw our support behind a group of filmmakers we truly believe in.
Filmmakers like the ones behind the new horror anthology, Incurable Illness of Anxiety and Depression, Jaron Herren, Aaron Joachim, Jack Ruefli and Chloe Clare who have a proven track record of highly creative short films like Three Story Tour (Jaron Herren, writer and director), Chances Are You Just Might Find It (Aaron Joachim, writer and director), Sorrowing Man (Jack Ruefli, director) and Chloe Clare (Medicine for the Apocalypse, cinematographer).
The four creatives are currently crowdfunding Incurable Illness of Anxiety and Depression, a compendium of four short, but horrifying stories that make up one single full length feature film.
The new film is designed to be an exploration of mental health, told through different genres of horror that allow the filmmakers to explore that theme in different ways, and it is also a homage to the Horror genre itself, a celebration to the genre across time: 1930’s Gothic Horror, 1950’s Fantasy Horror, 1970’s Sci-Fi Horror, and contemporary Monster Horror.
Just an idea Productions and Wolftale Pictures have worked together on multiple projects over the past three years, with many mentioned above, featuring at over eighty international film festivals, including Cannes and Hollywood North.
You can find out more about the crowdfunding campaign here.
Get to know the filmmakers:
Jaron Herren
Jaron is the founder and CEO of Just an idea Productions, he is also a multi-award-winning film producer, director and writer. his previous films have attended over 50 international film festivals, including “Bereaved” which attended and won an award at the prestigious “Festival De Cannes” in 2021. Jaron is an Auteur who pushes boundaries, known for taking intimate topics and stories (such as depression, miscarriage, and disability) and telling them through boundary-pushing artistic ways such as expressionistic dance, surrealism and fantasy. This fits perfectly to Jaron’s section of the film, “fantasy horror”.
Aaron Joachim
Aaron Joachim is a producer, director, and writer, known for his work in SPREADSHEETS (2022), Chances Are You Just Might Find It (2022), and Three Story Tour (2022). As of (2022) he is the Chief Financial Officer at Just an Idea Productions. His films commonly explore the themes of time, nihilism, and human motivation. this fits perfectly to Aaron’s section of the film, “Gothic horror”.
Jack Ruefli
Jack is an internationally multi-award-winning film director, producer, and writer. With his previous films having attended over 50 international film festivals, taking away 15 awards with 7 of those being for best direction. Jack is an Auteur who often peers through the lenses of philosophy in relation to the human experience, known for tackling deep and thought provoking topics (such as loneliness, freedom, and abuse) and pushing the boundaries in which they can be told in the most unique way possible. This fits perfectly to Jack’s section of the film, “Sci-Fi Horror”.
Chloe Clare
Chloe is a producer, writer, cinematographer and director. She has worked as a creative spearhead on documentaries, music videos, short films, and focuses on stories with emotional resonance and power. Stories that revolve around themes of the uncanny, and the ostracised; and finds the human parralells between what is considered ‘normal’ and what is not. This fits perfectly to Chloe’s section of the film, “Psycholofical Horror”.
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