The OFFICIAL Turtle Power Documentary Thread
 

The TMNT DOCUMENTARY is for real!

As some of you are aware of the TMNT documentary is currently in the works. I was waiting until Sunday when the site and trailer go up to post this, but in the light of the ironic situation of Lionsgate doing a fan bonus feature I thought I'd put the word out now so as not to confuse them with us.

The TMNT fan documentary has already begun shooting as of last month. We are traveling down to New York for the Comic Con and other TMNT related locations in the area in Feb. Between now and April we plan on questing across the country again in search of anything and everything TMNT!

If you are a fan and would like to share your story, if you know of something or someone TMNT related that you might like to suggest, if you have home video or pictures of you as a youth playing with or opening turtles on a birthday or Christmas, if you have a massive collection, or if you just want to say hi!! Drop me a line! We will come to you!!! You can email me at:

[email protected]

The website will be up late afternoon on Sunday Jan. 25th.

www.turtledoc.com

This is a big event! We would love to help as many of you as we can share your stories and help support the community. We hope to catch up with anyone TMNT related in the creative aspects as well. We hope that we can help celebrate the 25th aniversary by making something by fans, for fans, about fans, for the TMNT history and world!

So please show your support!! And we hope to meet some of you soon!!

Thanks!

Isaac

Congratulations! I'm glad to hear that it's official (?)! Have fun with it!

I'm still down keep me posted.

Official in the sense that we are doing for real! There is a budget and we have already started shooting! Like I say now all we need is your help! If you are a TMNT fan... then we should talk!

A budget? Who're you selling this to?

If anyone is reluctant to participate or are skeptical as to the actuality of this project, I have spoken to Issac at length over the phone and have helped him make connections to various parties. This is legit.

Thank you Archon! you are a Stand up dude!

As to the "budget" question hahaha, I should say it is privately funded, I mean that we are going ahead with the project on a professionals level.

I'm willing do anything, what ever you think you might need...let me know.

Interviews with fans and people generally passionate about the Turtles weather they have collections or not! That is the biggest thing we need right now!

In case that was a reply to me, I was only asking where the budget was coming from. For the officialer fan-documentary, it seems obvious that Lionsgate is footing the bill. I'll help in an off-camera fashion if needed, but I was in no way complaining. I'd also like to know how you guys intend to distribute this. Surely you're not going to blow your budget on something that'll only be uploaded to youtube... Right?

I'd be willing to help.

Very cool, just keep me posted! Congrats on making it this far!

Hey thats all cool! Let people know that it is going on! If you have pictures you want to send in, thats also cool!

I am not sure what you mean about "footing the bill"? Just a question.

Anyways, to answer your question no we will not just be hosting this on youtube. There are many avenues for distribution available. In some ways it depends on how things go. In the worse case scenario this will be available on DVD for sale on the web, at shows, and possibly at retail outlets.

I'm in, though I dunno in what capacity I can actually contribute.

it wasnt gobo :-) I just have seen a lot of these kinds of ideas start up only to quickly fall flat on their face. This project appears to have tremendous legs as opposed to other stuff, so I just wanted to let people know that.

Like I say, no matter if you have a collection or not, if your just a passing fan, even if you only remember the turtles as a kid, your stories are ALL important to us and we want to share them.

We will come to you! Email me, tell me a little about yourself and why you like the TMNT and where you are located (this can be general if you want, such as which state/city) We want to make this as big and widespread as we can!

I hope this is something everyone will enjoy and can look back on for years to come!

Hm. Gotta see if I can find a way to shoot video now...

Shoot video? I don't mean to assume, but I want to make sure you know we intend on shooting video of you! If you want to send in old school home video of new video of things that you have done! thats cool, but interviews and things like that we can go to the fans themselves!

Sorry I just wanted to make that clear just in case!

Thanks!

Funding the project...
That's a relief... ^_^

As long as it isn't a freakshow, like the Lionsgate fan bonus thing sure aims to be ("We want only the BIGGEST fans that have the biggest collections"... because everyone knows you're not a big TMNT fan unless you have bought tons of TMNT trinkets, pez dispensers and other miscellaneous rubbish to display behind you when they make the video)... then this could be interesting.

^ THIS IS EXACTLY TRUE! this is NOT a freak show doc at all!

We want to tell the true, very human story of the people who love TMNT. We do like the visual appeal of collections BUT this is not what the documentary is about. We are trying to tell the story of the fans, how TMNT affected their lives no matter how large or small.

freakshow is exactly what we DON'T want. If we did then I might as well shoot my own stuff (which I did on a massive New York city miniature set over Christmas break). What VH1 did with Ivey, is not what we want to do.

This is a positive story about how TMNT is the biggest, best, and most powerful pop culture phenomenon of our time and why we love it so much!

The one thing we do like! is proximity of fans! We will travel anywhere in North America. But the more fans in a particular area the better! You can understand why.

This sounds cool. I'd definitely be intersted in particpiating in any way I can.

Ah, ok. I just looked at your location and My presence in TN and thus the issue came up of distance.

Sounds cool, can't wait to see it when it's finished.

I'm totally down for this as well.

I up for this too.

===HERO

I'm definitely intersted in participating

If there are people attending the NYC Comic Con, I will be there shooting TMNT stuff the entire time. If there is anything the fans are interested in doing, a fan party of any type, a fan forum of fans interacting with each other, this is all great and we would love to shoot that.

We are also working on getting as many people creatively involved with the franchise as possible, as well as any material we can use (such as behind the scenes and such) that has not been out there yet.

If there are suggestions, or things that you want to see in there let us know! We will do our best to get them in.

Count me in as well I'll be willing to take part

Are you not in the UK? If so I might be able to set something up.

As I have suggested before, having groups of people or fans that know other fans in roughly the same area is a huge help!

Obviously the more fans we can talk to per 'stop' the better! But if you don't know anyone in your area this is still ok, we still want to hear from you!!

"Harvest" was cool.

^Haha If you watched the trailer for my feature film "Life of Charlie", Harvest was the reason we were able to do that.

Harvest was written, shot, edited, composed, and handed in, in 24 hours for competition. We won audience choice and second place only loosing first because we didn't use one of the provided props.

I am glad you liked it! And I hope you like our Feature Turtle Doc!!


People who are going to NYC Comic Con!!!! We should meet up ! Who's all going?

I always had this notion of a normal guy sitting at home watching TMNT with his kid opening and closing the thing. In the end, that's really what it's about, entertaining generations, and symbolising something for everyone.

Can I get you to say that in an interview! That is what this is about! Showing what it means to each individual, and to all at the same time! As well as seeing some cool stuff and having some cool memories along the way!

Send me an email! I would love to hear more!

This goes for everyone, no matter what your views are or reasons for loving TMNT we want to hear your stories!

Eh. I want to agree with you in principle, but really practically the only kind of Eastman & Laird TMNT that still brings me any enjoyment beyond momentary nostalgic thrills... isn't entirely appropriate for children at all (this harkening back to the 80s, early Mirage source material of the TMNT that you'll find many of the cartoon/toy/collector-only diehards seem to want to forget about, or at least put in a place of lesser importance/relevance).

Noone's telling you to keep that opinion to yourself, you can express that in this documentary as a a "purist" view, but we know that, reallisticly, it's become more than the original intent.

It doesn't sound like any "purists" are going to be in the documentary.

Or "less," depending on your viewpoint. But yes.

Hmm....that's cause for concern. I definatly would want the pursit element in there, otherwise it's not being accurate.

Zaruis mate. What part of the UK are you from?

===HERO

He's a highlander. :D