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Upon This Rock is an examination of monastery life around a one hundred thirty foot rock outcrop upon which a monk hopes to live and become the first stylite there in six hundred years.

Upon This Rock Release

After many delays we have finally released our short documentary, Upon This Rock. It is now available on DVD through Amazon or for a discount, the DVD or Blu-Ray can be purchased directly through the official website. It is also available to stream through Vimeo On Demand.

Upon This Rock examines monastery life at the foot of Katskhi Pillar and introduces Fr. Maxim. It is a contemplative film that provides the prologue to the feature length film that is still in development. We continue to seek major funding to begin production on the feature but are dedicated now to getting Upon This Rock distributed as widely as possible.

Thank you for your interest and please continue to help us spread the word.

Project Update

It has been a long time since we've posted.  Over the last eight months we have been working to get the word out about Upon This Rock, a short documentary and featurette for The Stylite.  It was shot during a research trip to the Republic of Georgia in September of 2011 and premiered in Hollywood, California in January of 2013.  We anticipate that it will be available on DVD by the end of the year.

With the article about Fr. Maxim recently published by The Huffington Post, we have received a marked increase in traffic at our website and people are starting to find their way to the project.  This has given us much needed momentum and we're now planning to take Upon This Rock on tour next year.

   

Upon This Rock will have it's world premiere in Hollywood, California at Sunset Gower Studios as part of the NewFilmmakers LA showcase.  Writer/Director Stephen Riehl and Composer/Sound Designer Shawn Kelly will be in attendance.

Upon this Rock

We have just completed the short documentary Upon this Rock from the footage shot during our research trip last September.  You can watch the extended trailer here. It has been conceived as a prologue for The Stylite. We hope to use it to raise interest in the feature length project and the film will soon be making its rounds on the festival circuit.

Upon this Rock documents a day in the life around the pillar starting with a special midnight mass for the feast of St. Simeon, the first known Stylite.  Thanks to the cooperation of Father Maxim and the rest of the monks that live and work at the St. Simeon monastery we were able to capture their life with nearly total access.

The Stylite is a much more ambitious project and is being developed as an experimental documentary in which we hope to create through sound design and choreographed camera movement a film that resembles an ancient palimpsest in which Father Maxim's story and that of an unseen traveler drawn to the pillar from the city overlay one another.  The traveler will not be shown on screen, but rather the audience will experience the story through the traveler's experiences.

Work continues in earnest, and we hope to begin principal photography as soon as major funding is secured.      

 

Happy New Year

The New Year marks the end of our first year in development with The Stylite and we hope to begin principal photography by the end of this year. Currently, we are completing Upon this Rock, a short documentary about Katskhi Pillar and Fr. Maxim. We plan to premiere it at the first of several fundraising events this year before taking it onto the film festival circuit. In addition, the completion of the short will mark the beginning of our Kickstarter campaign.

With your help, we hope to build a grassroots following while simultaneously garnering interest from the industry. Please check our Facebook page for updates on fundraisers and screenings. If you would like to help organize a screening and fundraiser in your area, please contact us directly at: info@maboroshiproductions.com

Also, if you haven't already, please join our quarterly newsletter as it will provide behind the scenes information that isn't available anywhere else. The winter quarterly is due out soon and will feature an excerpt from our proposal which will give an exclusive glimpse at the vision of not only The Stylite but the two other films of the cycle. You can join the newsletter either by going to the official website or our Facebook page. Thank you for your continued support.