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This project successfully funded on 1st July 2025, you can still support them with a donation.
This project successfully funded on 1st July 2025, you can still support them with a donation.
Aim: A revolution looks different through every lens - Tomorrow Does Not Exist is one such story. Help us bring it to life.
When you scroll through this section, you will see all the work that has been put into making this film come alive to the best of our efforts. The references and actual shots, the inspirations drawn from, and the actual footage we have worked to capture during the shoot. We need your help to make it to the finish line. We are crowdfunding to give this film the proper treatment it needs for post-production.
The trailer as you see it - looks complete, but the film is far from it. We need music, colour grading, VFX and much more to enhance the entire experience and say our story with the fullest authenticity.
PLOT
Tomorrow Does Not Exist (2025) follows a history student from year 2077, Fiona, who time travels back in time to interview Henry, the leader of a leftist guerrilla military group, the day before their attempt to overthrow the capitalist totalitarian government on 21st November, 2027, which will be regarded in history as the "November Riots". Fiona soon finds herself captured by Henry and another member of the military group, Jude. She struggles to talk her way out of danger, while simultaneously trying to communicate important information to Henry, before it's too late...
THEMES
The story explores themes of fate and determinism, revolutionary ideals and reality, the authenticity and credibility of recorded human history, as well as the survivor’s guilt, existential dread and nihilistic tendencies of people living in the post-modern era.
NARRATIVE INSPIRATIONS from Short Stories and Books
The short film is a loose adaptation of a short story "Inside The Berlin Wall (柏林圍城)" written by Arthur Lai, the writer/director of the film, in which he told a fictional story of the last person who died trying to cross the Berlin Wall being visited by a time traveller one day before his escape attempt. (Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbhf7ZeJhEK/?igsh=ODNiOGFwNGN0NWFv)
The film is also partly inspired by George Orwell's book "Homage to Catalonia", in which he accounts his personal experiences fighting alongside leftist militias in the Spanish Civil War.
Some inspirations and quotes from Charles Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" and Slavoj Žižek's "The Sublime Object of Ideology".
NARRATIVE INSPIRATIONS from Films
VISUAL INSPIRATIONS
If you've made it this far, you would agree that a very passionate and dedicated crew has worked on this film and we need every single person's help out there to reach the finish line and bring out our story. THANK YOU so much for your time and support! We are so grateful for every donation and we could never tell this story without you!
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Thank you,
TOMORROW DOES NOT EXIST Team