$70 Zombie Movie a Hit at Cannes

Marc Price worked nights at a private car hire firm (taxi booking guy) for 18 months while working on his new zombie movie, and now he's enjoying the success at Cannes.  While it's not that interesting to have a new director on the scene at Cannes, what is interesting is that Price pulled together this movie with a budget of only $70!  Compare that to something like Spiderman 3's $258 Million budget, and this is an absolutely incredible feat!

CNN reported about Price's movie is called 'Colin' and is described as a zombie movie "with a heart".  It tells the tale of Colin, who gets bitten, dies and comes back from the dead.  It really takes a different spin, because zombie movies don't normally tell the story from the zombie's point of view.  Price says he got the idea after a late night watching 'Dawn of the Dead' with some friends and they all remarked how they would never get the budget to create zombie film.  Price awoke early the next day, a touch hungover, and decided to make a film entirely from the zombie's perspective, and he'd do it with nearly no budget.  The result is 'Colin'.

A bunch of Japanese distributors are already in negotiations for the rights to the film, and the amount of buzz around this film has even attracted some large American distributors, even some from the Hollywood Studios were checking out the final market screening of the film! 

How do you make a film for only $70?  Get alot of help from your friends, and only spend money on what you absolutely need.  Social Networking sites got Price his staff, and he would just ask them to bring their own stuff to the shoot and use that.  The makeup artist had just come off of doing X-Men 3, so he had some extra latex that was used on Wolverine!  The special-effects he learned to do by watching the "behind the scenes" extra features from his DVD collection. 
The $70 bought him a crowbar, some tapes and some coffee and tea to keep the volunteer zombies happy!