Creators of From Bedrooms to Billions Returns to Kickstarter For New Feature Film About Commodore Amiga

This past weekend, creators of Kickstarter alum From Bedrooms to Billions, Nicola and Anthony Caulfield, took to the crowdfunding giant once again to raise £50,000 for their new project, From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years.

Amiga 5Sharing details about the 90-minute feature film, the filmmaking duo stated, “[From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years] will explore the influence of the Commodore Amiga and how it took video game development, music and publishing to a whole new level and changed the video games industry forever!

“We used Kickstarter to fund our previous film called From Bedrooms to Billions that told the story of the UK video games industry from 1979 to the present day and we are turning to it again now in the 30th anniversary year of the release of the Commodore Amiga in the hope that you will support us once again to produce a film that not only celebrates this fantastic machine, but importantly what it did for the video games industry and development in general due to the many ground breaking games that appeared on it.

“We found Kickstarter such a wonderful way to really engage our audience and enjoyed making our backers feel part of our project. We now want to explore The Amiga Years! as this was a part of our previous film that for running time reasons we could not explore as deeply as we wanted to and always felt that it would work as a standalone feature documentary.

Amiga 2“Therefore it is our intention to film a whole new set of interviews to add to our already extensive list to create a standalone, immersive and highly nostalgic film that really explores why the release of the Commodore Amiga and the era that soon followed was a key period in the evolution of video games.

“Though our previous film did focus on the UK perspective we really feel to make this film in the way it should be made it needs to capture that worldwide view, as the games industry at the stage the Amiga really started to influence was very much a global industry. So with this in mind as well as including many new UK contributors we feel it important to feature some of those key US and other European developers, musicians, demo sceners, publishers and journalists to cover this incredible era as thoroughly as possible.

“In addition The Amiga Years! represents the era of the 16-bit and higher powered computers so we do intend to reference other important computers as the Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes and others, but it is the Commodore Amiga and the era it represents which will be the key focus and the reason we have titled the film The Amiga Years!”

Amiga 1The duo revealed that the film will start with the origins, design and release of Commodore Amiga and then they will look at where the worldwide game industry was prior to its release in 1985. “The Commodore Amiga reset the previous boundaries, the very exploration of what was possible in itself led to an incredibly important and pioneering era where skilled developers were able to strive for new innovations, set free by this incredible technology. We intend to explore what these innovations were and the people behind them.

“By the late 1980’s and early 1990’s many countries around the world saw a new wave of developers entering the video games industry, joining many of those original pioneers to work to push video game creation even further. Games from across the world were now readily available everywhere and the UK was suddenly becoming a real global player emerging truly out of its original cottage industry roots of the 8 bit era.”

Those who back the project will receive various rewards for their contributions, including a digital download, DVD, Blu-ray, and even a chance to be an executive producer of the film. All rewards will be shipped in January 2016.

Since its debut on Kickstarter, the project has raised over £22,000 thanks to nearly 700 backers. It is set to close on March 29th.

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