Fund This: YouTube Star Jack Harries Is Producer Behind ‘Alegna’

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Project Name: Alegna

Asking For: £8,000 ($11,398.80) on Indiegogo

Amount Raised Thus Far (At Time Of Post): £7,086 ($10,096.49)

Days Remaining In Campaign (At Time Of Post): 9

Description: Jack Harries is best known as a YouTube star and one-half of the fraternal video-making duo JacksGap, but with his latest project, he is taking on a behind-the-scenes role. Harries is the producer behind Alegna, a short film led by writer and director Fraser Rigg.

Alegna will focus on a British soldier who has been captured by enemy combatants during the Iraq War. The film will take place over the course of his captivity, and Rigg plans display the punishments exacted upon his protagonist with unsparing detail and grim, raw realism.

“This isn’t your typical war story,” writes Rigg on Alegna‘s Indiegogo page, “we’re not pointing fingers here at who is wrong and who is right, merely just showing you the effects of war and the duality of man to destroy himself.” More details about the project are available in its pitch video:

Creator Bio: Some of Rigg’s previous work can be found on Vimeo, where two of his short films have been selected as staff picks. As for Harries, production runs in his family. His father, Andy Harries, is a well-known figure in British TV and film.

Best Perk: A £50 donation earns the contributor a Skype session with both Rigg and Harries. The perk is branded as a “film class.”

Why You Should Fund It: Harries may be the biggest name involved in Alegna, but the film is Rigg’s baby, and it is worth funding solely based on the merits of its director’s previous work. Rigg’s most recent short film, Billy Boys, served as a showcase for his raw style, his knack for eye-catching cinematography, and his inventive screenwriting. Judging from the Alegna concept art available on the project’s Indiegogo page, Rigg’s latest work will carry over all of the appealing aspects of his previous work, and then some. If you agree, you can help push the film past its imminent funding goal.

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