How ‘bout another 5?
Yeah folks, this time the ‘5’ is a 5Km(& 500 meters)
‘Run’ or Marathon.
You ask, “Marathon? You mean like running? Like exercise?”.
And we say, “Well, not really, but if you wanna put it that way, you can.” See,
let’s get this straight ok? You can run, walk, slow-jog, fast-walk, cycle or
even crawl but you gotta reach the finish-line. No auto! So anyways, this is
gonna be a 5K run with the Cast, Crew and Friends of ‘500 & 5’ and
Accessible Horizon Films. Everyone’s gonna be there and we want YOU all to join
in on the fun and a cause.
Why are we doing this and why do we want you with us?
Really…well, there’re 2 reasons.
1. As
many of you now know, ‘500 & 5’ is a feature-length ensemble of 5
short films with stories containing Gangsters, Romance, Reality, Dark
fantasy, Social rebellion, etc. Despite all the ‘Cinematic’ elements that
it contains, the underlying theme of ‘500 & 5’ deals with Money (as
the omnipresent yet futile concept that rules us all) through the 5 main
characters (and eventually envisions a world without money). Like many
seemingly impossible things, this too starts with an idea. In a world
where there’s a price tag to anything and everything including basic
human-ness, we thought it necessary to shake things up a little. You know,
break down the existing concept of Money and bring it down to its knees,
at first theoretically, then through the film and eventually, maybe…maybe
initiate a dialogue in that direction. We’ve tried to stick to this
philosophy even for the ‘Making’ of ‘500 & 5’, which is why we’ve been
able to do it independently and without major financial resources. And
things like ‘Human-ness’ and the L-word (that ‘blasphemous’ L-word, Love, that
we, as a society are embarrassed to use anymore) seem to have lost their
meaning and have been replaced by the M-word. So we wanna give a shout-out
against that change. How ‘bout that?
2. Now,
now, since this is also a promotional campaign for the film ‘500 & 5’,
we just wanna have some plain,
unadulterated fun with the people who worked with us and made this
project into what it is now. There have been tons of people, I mean, real
people involved in this project with whom we’ve had too much fun during
the making and we want to unwind a little after all that hard work we put
in. We want you in on this because this film project is a labor of love
made outside the confines of the studio system and we wanna share the
euphoria associated with it at a ground level(literally) not at some big,
staged, ticketed event.
So…if you’re even a wee bit interested or just wanna get off
your uhh…we mean, couch, do join us. Since we'll have some special giveaways for you, we'll need a headcount, so please DO register (it's FREE)with your email at our website http://500n5themovie.com/5KRunRegistration.php.
(And hey, if you can’t make it and wanna show your support, you can Like our ‘500 & 5’ Page. It’ll be a booster for our run.)
Event: 500 & 5’s 5K Run
Venue: Marina Beach, Chennai (Start point: Subramania Bharathiar
statue)
Date: Sunday, July 22nd , 2012
Time: 6:30 a.m
For more information & updates, check out:
www.AccessibleHorizonFilms.com
The names in the Dinakaran article have been interchanged. Must have been Shankar and Lakshmi Priya. Nevertheless, congrats are in order for Deepak Sundarajan, Sivashankar Srinivasan, Living Smile Vidya, Chinnu Kuruvilla and TM Karthik Srinivasan and Lakshmi Priya :)
