Why Lucia?

• Directed by the most brilliant director of sandalwood, Pawan Kumar.
• Lucia is the 1st crowd-funded kannada movie. Yes, Audience themselves are Its Producers.
• World Premiere at London Indain Film Festival 13, where it won audience covoted best film award.
• Lucia's cast n crew entirely consists of new talents who are chosen like pearls.
• Lucia's music by new talent Poornachandra Tejaswi won every kannadiga's heart.
• Lucia is available to view online in HD Quality.
• Lucia's plot is a psycho thriller, which keeps you stick to your couch.
• The first thing the critics praise about Lucia is Its Camera work, credits to Siddartha Nuni, who have also worked for Life Of PI.
• Many bollywood icons like Irfan Khan, Anuragh Kashyap praised about Lucia.
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Lucia Making

  Lucia, is a feature film written and directed by Pawan Kumar of Lifeu Ishtene fame and produced by the audience themselves. Yes, you read that right! This is the first Kannada feature film to be completely Crowd Funded ! No offence to what is currently produced in the Kannada Industry, there are audiences who appreciate that content and the producers are making profits, but is everyone happy? There is a big chunk of audience who are looking for something else, something more subtle, mature, intelligent and real. Can’t a Kannada film ever be any of that? Can’t it speak of contemporary stories and personal disturbances of today’s times? Is there really no educated Kannada audience as it is believed in the industry? This is an attempt to find those audiences. No regular producer is willing to win this set of audience back. Through Project Lucia, the audiences are making a point loud and clear that they exist and they do support Kannada films made with good intentions and in good taste.

  On Feb 24th 2012, Pawan Kumar decided to go public with the making of the film Lucia. He invited audience to chip in funds and become producers for the film, and they came in big numbers and Rs. 51 Lakh was raised in just 27 days. The project became a reality with no producer/star but just with the help of the audiences who wanted a change. British Council awarded us with International recognition for initiating this project.

Lucia New Animated Poster

Lucia Release Update

Here is the list of theatres where Lucia is releasing outside Karnataka. Share this image and this PDF ( https://www.dropbox.com/s/akbv67avju093xl/Lucia%20the%20film.pdf ) in your network.

Its a subtitled Kannada film... so anyone in the country can watch it. We just have to make them aware. If these shows attract a good audience, then more Kannada films can be released similarly in the future. So its very important that we create good ticket sales in all these cities.

Team Lucia has done almost everything that was promised. - Pawan Kumar

Lucia Set To Release

LUCIA releasing on Sept. 6th (theatrical)...

Bangalore...Mumbai...Delhi NCR...Pune...Chennai.. Ahmedabad...Surat...Cochin...and Hyderabad.

The list of cities where LUCIA (with eng subtitles) will have a simultaneous release. Thanks to PVR DIRECTORS RARE. Lucia will be the first kannada film to be part of directors rare on the first week of release. They saw the trailer n the LIFF result n readily accepted. - Pawan Kumar.

Pawan Kumar says on his FB

   Lucia is declared as universally safe for viewing by the CBFC. When it hits the theatre, kindly bring your children and their children without any worries.

And it implies you can watch Lucia with your family members at home when it releases online.

Pre Order

Lucia, Kannada's first-ever crowd-funded movie, directed and produced by 30-year-old director Pawan Kumar, has won the Audience Award at the fourth London Indian Film Festival.

Pawan Kumar was quoted on the London Indian Film Festival website: “To win this award in the face of such powerful competition is a dream come true for me. I thank the London Indian Film Festival for selecting the film for its world premiere and would also like to thank the London audience and the UK Kannada community for supporting the film.”

How pre-ordering works

Lucia can be pre-ordered for a streaming view online at HomeTalkies.com . Pre-order prices

range from Rs.500 all the way to Rs.5000, with each level coming with it’s own set of benefits thrown in. In return for preordering, each buyer is converted into an online distributor for the film. Pre-orderers will receive a unique coded link for the film’s screening when the buyers pay. When the film releases online, in addition to seeing the film themselves, the buyers can circulate this unique link through their own social network. For everyone who buys a screening of the film through such a link, the owner of the link (the person who did the pre-order) gets a percentage as fee for having promoted the sale.

A delighted Pawan Kumar has expressed his happiness over the award, though he is being realistic about the future. He writes on his

Facebook page:

"In our website we have written that the vision of Project Lucia was To bring back the dignity in making and watching a Kannada movie. I guess we are inching towards it. However, the big hurdle is yet to be crossed. Sending this film to various prestigious festivals and winning accolades is one thing... but actually getting it to release right here in our own state is the most difficult thing. This is where the stars win over us hands down."

Rebel director chooses the less-trodden path Pavan Kumar earlier had expressed his frustration about no takers for Lucia, his second film. His fans and friends on Facebook reacted to it and many suggestions started coming his way. Finally he decided to produce Lucia through crowd-funding. In his own words, he was earlier bombarded with emails, smses, pings, chat posts etc etc.Everyone coming together to pour in ideas and solutions. Majority of them have suggested to open a public funding and produce the film with the help of the audience!"

He raised 51 lakhs by corwd-funding, with which he completed the movie. Citizen Matters has supported him in his endeavour, by hosting pre-ordering Lucia. Pawan Kumar plans to raise 50 lakh rupees by selling tickets to the

movie.

If you have missed pre-ordering Lucia, you can do so by clicking here.