RISE is a short Sci-Fi film by David Karlak about a robot revolution in the future, told from the perspective of the robots.

The short film stars Anton Yelchin (Star Trek Into Darkness, Terminator Salvation) and Rufus Sewell (Dark City, Hercules), who both deliver exceptional performances. The screenplay is written by Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton (Pacific Rim, God of War). Because RISE was shot over the span of over a year, several talented cinematographers have worked on RISE. They include, Roman Vasyanov, Sam McCurdy, Perry Ho and Chris Probst. The visual effects are being supervised by Scott Metzger.

In the near future, sentient robots are targeted for elimination after they develop emotional symmetry to humans and a revolutionary war for their survival begins.

Basically, RISE is a movie that flips the man v. machine trope on it's head. It's a movie about a robot uprising and revolution, but told from the point-of-view of the robots. Imagine The Arab Spring with robots.

The short film has been a passion project that has relied heavily on friends and favors to get it to where it is today. RISE was shot in piecemeal fashion since early 2013. They transformed skid row in Downtown Los Angeles into a robot slum, built a robot tenement set, and then trekked halfway across the world to wrap up production with a guerrilla shoot in Beijing, China!

This film project on Kickstarter is a fan film. They are placing the predator in to the Dark Ages - With Knight Templars

The film follows a group of war-torn Templar knights who have returned from the Eastern lands, back to England, only to find that the enemy is now a lot closer and a lot more deadly than before. Throughout time the Predator has always looked for the greatest warriors to fight in battle, and with this short film we will see him put to the test against the some of the best history has ever seen, the Templar Knights.

Their battle with the Predator is the thing Myths and Legends are made of.

This Kickstarter project is about a short film to showcase the daring and futuristic world of their planned feature length sci-fi thriller 'I-VOLUTION'.

The Story:

A brilliant but obsessed scientist finds himself on the brink of creating the world’s first artificial intelligence in this provocative and visceral sci-fi/suspense film from Mojo Road Entertainment. In the not too distant future, while creating the EVE Residence--a super computer operated ‘smart home’--Bionetic’s scientist COLIN DARROWAY discovers a way to link himself to the computer in hopes of creating the world’s first human-computer singularity. A symbiosis of man and machine that promises to accelerate the computer to artificial intelligence level and launch humanity to unbelievable heights.

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