Your Stage : I am looking for a producer to help me find funding for an animated series. by Claudiu Tudor Pavel

Hi!

I have managed to make a pilot by myself where I animated everything and voiced every character by myself.

Link to the pilot ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfiV9AA93O0

The series is partially autobiographical. It is inspired from the 5 years I spent in London. I am currently in Romania, and I self-produced the pilot years after I had left London.

The series would be a mixture between BoJack Horseman and Mr Robot. It is similar to BoJack Horseman because it would explore the reasons why the main character is attracted to show-business/Hollywood/filmmaking. The similarities to Mr Robot revolve around his inner struggle with his sense of self-worth, which inner struggle manifest through an imaginary version of himself.

With regards to the animation style, it borrows heavily from BoJack Horseman, however I chose to include memes and anime as means of conveying meaning. For example, you may notice how in the section where the main character imagines different ways in which he could have approached a situation, the image quality deteriorates as he plays though the interaction in his mind. The meme referenced is called “deepfrying”. It is a community practice of using an image over and over again, through downloads and uploads, until its pixel count diminishes and it loses its sharpness. The deterioration also reflects, unintentionally, the community gradual loss of interest with the meme represented by the image. In this instance, the memory and the fantasy deteriorate as he hyper fixates on them both.

The series would follow the struggles the main character would face as an immigrant, alone, in a foreign country, where his ethnicity is hated, as he tries to become a filmmaker/director. Underneath that, the show would also tackle the motivations of a lonely young man who has issues with women, his parents and making friends. He may be considered an incel, but I, personally, never identified with said group of people.

I am attaching links to my other works:

Big City Liefe: the series of shorts that inspired the pilot

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjC390dvO8wYnMvvj-nOQPEHHxx7k7i4f&si=...

Raw Romania: another series of shorts about life in Romania

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjC390dvO8wazoyvuhey32i3E7fVMtqWZ&si=...

Reset explica: a series of videos to inspire people to vote. I made these for an NGO I co-founded

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjC390dvO8wbFtrrAywXNKlMuUlXrS3QV&si=...

Despre Cristo-Fascismul de AUR: a series of videos about the dangers of Christo-Fascism, also for Reset, the NGO.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjC390dvO8wZDdup9Uw1mJQJVqunW8rXr

My ultimate goal is to have my series made, so I am open to adjusting my expectations and vision or the series' format, for an opportunity to see my dream come true.

I look forward to receiving feedback from you, of any kind.