The Akira Project Live Action Trailer ( Official)

Check out this Skillshare class by the director NguyenAnh Nguyen, about indie filmmaking and how he made the Akira Project and his newest project, Temple. The Akira Project is a crowdsourced, nonprofit project meant to create a live action fan trailer of AKIRA, the renowned mangaturnedanime film from the late 1980s; a stunning example of both mediums as art forms. While Hollywood has been working on a liveaction Akira movie for a few years now, we, as fans, wanted to take a shot at making our own adaptation. A chance to stick as close to the source material as possible. A chance to do Akira Justice. We launched an Indiegogo campaign in July 2012 as part of a crowd sourcing effort to make this project come to life. Many people contributed not just financially but offered their time and talent to help the production that was shot in Montreal, Quebec from November 25th 2012. What started out as a simple idea between two guys having a beer (Hey It d be cool to see Kaneda ride h