"Lights" is a character driven story about brotherhood, patriotism, love, art and how these ideas shape our identities and drive us to do incredible things in life. "Lights" will portray the love of filmmaking, the love of family, the love of two brothers for the same woman, and above all the love for one's country.  It is a sweeping story that will captivate audiences.

Motivation Behind The Title

The film's title "Lights" comes from the idea that light is a creative force. Light represents a genesis for all things. The first thing in the universe was light, life grows with light, new ideas are represented by light, and most importantly film is constructed with light.

The title is clean, simple and quickly brings a certain brand of mysterious imagery to mind that is just as open to discovery as it is expressive of the nature of film itself.

Synopis

In 1921, two Slovak-American brothers Jerry and Daniel Siakel return to Czechoslovakia to direct the first Slovakian film. The movie is about the classic tale of Janosik, the famous bandit who died for his people. But when the American censors declare the hero’s death in the movie’s ending “too violent”, Jerry is forced to re-shoot a new “happy” ending behind his brother’s back. In doing this, Jerry betrays not only the story, but his brother, and his people that trusted him. The brothers later retire to America and never speak to each other again. But in 1968, a damaged copy of the Janosik film is re-discovered in Chicago by Daniel’s widow. Jerry must decide if he will return to his homeland to restore the film for his brother and risk re-exposing himself to a new generation as “the man who ruined the Janosik legend”. But fear is not the only thing that stands in Jerry’s way: the Warsaw Pact has just invaded Czechoslovakia.

"Lights" is a motion picture budgeted to be produced at $10 million in the United States, Slovak Republic and Czech Republic. The film genre is a historical/epic romantic drama, a fictionalized account of events based on actual people and their deeds, and will portray the love of filmmaking, the love of family, the love of two brothers for the same woman, and above all the love for one's country.

The company desires name talent for principle acting roles, thereby adding to the film's commercial value and audience appeal.

The following selections represent the talent pool in which a hired casting company will perform the casting for Lights. they will contact and negotiate with all talent and management agencies on behalf of The Lights Movie LLC. Actor's salaries may vary greatly based on their interest in the project.  The Casting Directors along with the director and producers will work to insure the best quality talent for the best possible value, basing their decisions on financial feasibility, marketability and sheer talent.

JERRY, 25

MARIA, 25

DANIEL

According to Publishers Weekly, historical fiction is "a nimble genre that works its way into all corners of the storytelling ecosystem.” So what’s the appeal of historical fiction for the movie going public? For viewers, it’s the chance to learn history in an entertaining way, to gain insight into what life was like in another era, or to enjoy a new twist on familiar events or characters.

“Lights” is designed to engage global audiences and provide international appeal because:

• The subject matter and the idea of the film is something that people from variety of cultures can relate to; an adventure filled love story with themes of betrayal, family, liberty, and happiness.
• The interpretation of the story is set in a fiscally appealing Historical/Epic Romantic Drama genre. Based on recent Hollywood trends, attractive time periods of the 1920’s and 1960’s paired with the genre provides the most promising return.
• The cast of “Lights” will enhance the commercial and worldwide appeal. Hollywood actors tend to have a greater global appeal.
• The narrative and visual style will directly appeal to filmgoers: a classic three-arc structure; easily readable story that people all over the world can understand and be touched by; sympathetic characters the audience can identified with; the main character, who despite all obstacles achieves his goal.

• Lubomir Kocka (film director) and Keegan Chandler (screenwriter) began developing the screenplay for "Lights" in September 2010, which Keegan finalized by April 2011.
• Legendary Hollywood Producer, Stratton Leopold enthusiastically joined the production as the Producer in January of 2012. Some of his past work includes:
• Producer, Blake Feldman struck a deal in April 2012 with Award-winning composer and conductor, Peter Breiner.  Breiner's music include CSI, 48 Hours, Saturday Night Live, The Ellen Show, 60 Minutes, NFL Football, As The World Turns, and The Young and the Restless.

• Keegan Chandler signed an agreement to option the screenplay to the company in May 2012, just before Producer, Joseph Raines joins the team in June 2012 and begins developing preliminary budget.
• To aid in the European portion of the budget, Lubomir Kocka contacted his former collegue from the Slovakia, Brano Binda. Brano enlisted the aid of his company, FilmserviceProductions Slovakia, and the co-production working agreement was drafted.
• Completed all necessary location scouting for the European portion of the production in the Slovak Republic and Czech Republic with the help of FilmserviceProductions Slovakia in December 2012.
• Initial Financial Projections in January 2013 that were extrapolated by Bruce Nash, founder of www.OpusData.comand www.the-numbers.com.
• In February 2013, The Lights Movie, LLC joined www.fundable.com and began preparing to unveil Light's to their online investor network.
• Jack Binder, founder of www.filmbudget.com, is hired (May 2013) to prepare a ‘Budgeting and Scheduling Package’.
• Subsequently, financial projections were updated (July 2013) and Bruce Nash still projects a 78% ROI for Light's equity partners.
• Jack Binder verbally agrees to Line Produce, adding Lights to his known films:
• While abroad in August, Kocka and Binda further discussed logistics in Europe and several Pre-Production meetings were scheduled for late November and  December 2013.
• September 2013, K-1's were filed for The Light's Movie, LLC's 2012 taxes while the business plan and pitch documents were re-aligned by Feldman & Raines.

Using conservative projections, backed by research and current knowledge of industry distribution agreements, the Company projects gross worldwide revenue of approximately $14,078,669 with a net producer/investor income of $6,147,189 for Lights.

We have assembled an award-winning dynamic team, which has produced hundreds of feature films, television shows, commercials, and music videos.  Accomplished Slovak-American director, Lubomir Kocka, and world renowned Slovak-American composer, Peter Briener, join forces again after 20 years to collaborate alongside esteemed Hollywood Producer Stratton Leopold.