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Latest:
3/24: VOTUM won the Audience Choice Award in the Short Film category at the First Glance Film Festival in Los Angeles!
Thank you all for coming out and supporting the film!
3/24: VOTUM won the Audience Choice Award in the Short Film category at the First Glance Film Festival in Los Angeles!
Thank you all for coming out and supporting the film!
3/14/24: VOTUM had its World Premier at the First Glance Film Festival in Laemmle, North Hollywood! Congratulation to the VOTUM team!
11/25/23: Name reveal week! The title of our movie VOTUM will be revealed on our Facebook and our Instagram page.
6/17/23: VOTUM is currently in post production. We are in the last stretch, working on the final music & audio mix.
About the Film:
VOTUM was written, directed and produced by Kornelia Takacs. Our fellow producer is Krisztina Weber, our co-producers are Adam Felszeghy, Laszlo Nagy, Judit Romwalter & Tamas Bohacs. Our adaptation of Stephen King's The Woman in The Room © short story centers on the relationship of an ailing mother and her devoted son.
Kornelia was personally drawn to this story. She also felt that it could be made into a quality movie; despite limited financial resources.
The 18 minute drama was shot in Budapest, Hungary. The film takes place during the early 1990's, on the outskirts of Chicago, Illinois.
Cast:
We are thrilled to introduce our talented actress Klara Spilak! Klara did an outstanding job with our English script, delivering a strong performance! Klara has been involved in Film and Theater productions in Hungary for decades. Having her experience and positivity on set was amazing!
We are very excited to introduce our actor Balacs Csemy! Balazs has a talent not only for acting, but also for languages. He has studied acting in Hungary, the United States as well as in Germany. The way his character shone and his command of the English language makes him a true asset to this film!
The voice of Kevin, brought to life by David Natale! David adds authenticity; and the perfect voice to VOTUM. David is passionate about audio. Besides working on the Call of Duty video game franchise in the AudioDepartment, he also works on his own projects.
Cast, Crew & Contributors:
Thank you so much for supporting the arts and our project if you contributed to our Kickstarter campaign!
I am grateful for your hard work and dedication to help us make this beautiful, and emotional film about a difficult subject. I tried to approach this topic with respect and humbleness. I could not be happier with the final result of how our film turned out!
From Cinematography and lighting, our grips and camera team, our camera and equipment from Sparks, our locations, set decoration, costumes, hair & makeup, the actors performance all added tremendous value to only list a few aspects. Our audio, SFX and VFX pros, our producer and co-producers. Our crew members who were first to arrive each morning to set up; and last to leave, our amazing 1st AD, Line Producer, Scripter, PA's and drivers, to our language dialect coach and background actors. Post Production also had a crucial part from editing to music and post production audio, down to our VOTUM poster design!
Every person and each department bought a lot to the table; with outstanding work and attention to detail. We shot during Covid, in the middle of Winter. Many of us have full-time jobs and worked in our spare time. I would like to thank each and every one of you for helping us make this film to share with the World!
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