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SHIP HAPPENS is the first feature film by producers Micki Mihich (screenplay, direction) and Simone Mihich Bueno (cinematography, color correction, digital effects), who together accumulate two decades of experience in the film business and digital industry. Their first endeavor, short film "The 100th Job" has been selected by 20 film festivals worldwide, having won 8 awards and bought by the Movieola Short Film Channel.

It took Micki and Simone almost half a decade to pay for the film's debts, even with distribution, thus the crowdfunding idea. But they didnt want to do a campaign empty-handed, so they shot the film first in order to show the crowdfunders images from the film and prove to them they have a good product to support. They also didnt renew distribution for The 100th Job making it available to the crowdfunders so they can see that the filmmakers can make a good film. Micki had several ideas for a comedy - plots, lines, characters, situations and whole dialogues, but he felt that by only putting them together we would end up with a soulless film. So Micki started thinking about dramatic situations that could alter relationships in a profound way and then built a structure with them, and upon that structure he applied all those comedic ideas that he had. The result, SHIP HAPPENS, is a comedy with a soul.

An interesting detail is that Micki ended up writing such a long story that it became a whole trilogy. That gives SHIP HAPPENS potential for cult status!

THE STORY

After Jack's father passes away, he rethinks his life and decides to come clean with his best friend Fred, his ex-girlfriend Debbie and with himself. But in the process he causes everybody - including himself - more trouble that he can manage.

SHIP HAPPENS centers around this guy Jack who, after his father's passing, stops to think about life and realizes he's taken a few wrong turns in the past, so he tries to fix them up. Alongside Jack there's Fred, his best friend who also has been affected by Jack's decisions, way more than he imagines. Fred is married to Cindy and they've found a way of making their marriage work really well... except for of a few secrets being kept. And there's also Debbie, Jack's ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son, Tommy, and those are the two elements he wants back into his life, but of course they won't be that easy to regain.

It's a film about how nobody is perfect, and even good people make bad decisions but sometimes bad decisions can also lead to good things. It's about how honesty is important in any kind of relationship, since if you hold secrets from one another you're also holding back on the relationship itself, and depending on the secret it'll eventually blow over sooner or later.

WHAT WILL WE DO WITH THE FUNDS?

We will pay for editing, coloring softwares and equipment; sound mixing fees; stock images and sound effects fees; opening animation and soundtrack fees; festivals entry fees; overloaded bills from when we were not working while doing the film; it will also allow us to do the special effects, coloring and editing of the film faster instead of having to get extra jobs to pay for the overloaded bills from shooting.

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