Movie "26 Years" collects production costs

Attention for the movie "26 Years" is hot.

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A movie company revealed that more than 130 million won has been collected in two days on the 26th to the 27th by the National Crowd Funding set up to collect the a billion won production cost of movie "26 Years".

Crowd Funding is being carried out through "Good Funding" (www.goodfuncing.net) and "Pop Funding" (www.popfunding.com) and "The Beautiful Foundation" has ended with its aimed amount of 10 million won.

Representative chairmen from all these companies and organizations as well as original writer Kang Full held a press conference and revealed that they will produce this movie using free Social Film Making and participation through SNS is getting heated up.

Social Film Making is a financing social funding where capital is collected by people who contribute certain amounts to a selected project. The social attention and interest gathered during the process leads on until the release of the movie and helps make it a success. The movie company is about to collect 100 million out of 500 million won through crowd funding and is planning to collect the rest from ordinary investors.

Investments are not returned. Investments are paid back in the sense of 2 premier tickets and posters for an investor of 20,000 won, 2 premier tickets, posters, a DVD and mentioning of the name at the end credit for investors of 50,000 won.

The movie company claimed, "With support like this from the nation through media and SNS, we should be able to fill in 100 million won in no time".

Skill contribution from computer graphics company Mad Man Post, real-time recording engineer Choi Jay-yeong and others are volunteering to take part in this project.

"26 Years" is about joining forces to convict 'the one' 26 years after national team members, shooters, gangs, policemen, leaders of major companies, private bodyguards and others trampled over the nation's people during the Gwangju uprising. The original is by Kang Full who created a web toon about it in 2006.