Dreams of the Last Butterflies

Finally revealed!  The 8 Butterflies from around the world that will be starring in ‘Dreams of the Last Butterflies’.  Each Butterfly will be played by one of our amazing female performers, who will be metamorphosing into Butterfly Queens for the film.

Acraea Swordtail - Africa (Congo Region)
Large Blue - Europe
Hahnel’s Amazonian Swallowtail - South America (Amazon River)
Malabar Tree Nymph - India
Purple Spotted Swallowtail - New Guinea
Gifu Butterfly - Japan
Monarch - North America
Luzon Peacock - Philippines

Preparing to assemble our first set of Butterfly Queen wings.  The wing fabric is being fitted over thin fiberglass rods, making them flexible, durable, and extremely lightweight. 

Our first ‘real’ set of wings for Dreams of the Last Butterflies have flown in! The photo shows just one of the 8 panels, all of them photo-realistic - and when assembled, the wearable, moving wings will have a 9-ft wingspan!   This set of wings will be worn by our Monarch Queen, Kayla Jo. 

Wings designed and built by Randy Carfagno and James Vogel.

The brand new Dreams of the Last Butterflies logo, designed by Richard Miller!

A behind-the-scenes action shot from our recent 3D test shoot for Dreams of the Last Butterflies.  We filmed a short test sequence in 3D with Flambeaux and Kai Altair at Attic Studios in NYC. The footage looks amazing, and will be included in our upcoming promotional video!  Special thanks to  Peter Clark for the use of his studio.

The final design for our Large Blue Butterfly Queen’s outfit, custom made by Wheylan Dean-Ford.  This Butterfly Queen will be played by the amazing hoops/flow arts/fire performer Madeleine Belle.

Getting started on the storyboards for Dreams of the Last Butterflies.  These will be used during the shooting process as a guide to framing and action.  (Storyboardist: Tony Wolf)

Zina Brown’s brand new 2012 Director’s Reel, a quick collection featuring some of his previous film and video work.  Zina is writer and director of ‘Dream of the Last Butterflies’.

Concept art for 2 of our Butterfly Queens - The Large Blue Butterfly Queen, and the Monarch Butterfly Queen.  They will be joining 6 additional Butterfly Queens for the adventure!

Art by James Vogel.

One more image of Kai Altair as the Malabar Tree Nymph Butterfly Queen.

Photo by Nicholas Whitaker. (click to make bigger!)

The Malabar Tree Nymph (Idea malabarica) is a large butterfly found in south-western India in forest clearings and above the forest canopy.  They are unusually hard to spot since they typically prefer the tree-tops.

They are listed as “Near Threatened” on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Our first ‘official’ promotional image for the film - Kai Altair as the Malabar Tree Nymph Butterfly Queen! 

Photo by Nicholas Whitaker.  (click to make larger!)

Initial concept sketches for The Collectors - villainous characters from Dreams of the Last Butterflies.

Art by James Vogel.

We are very excited to announce world-renowned Fire God, Artist and Performer Flambeaux has joined the cast!

With his trademark ‘wearable fire’ and distinct theatricality, Flambeaux has over 20 years of stage and screen experience performing for everyone from Donald Trump to Karl Lagerfield to Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs, in venues ranging from the New York Academy of Art to Las Vegas’ Tropicana Casino to the Ritz Carlton in SanYa, China.  His amazing skills have also been featured in such shows as National Geographic’s “Humanly Impossible”, The David Letterman Show, and “America’s Got Talent.”  He also holds 2 World Records.

Flambeaux will be taking the role of  “Captain of The Collectors” - stay tuned for more clues about the cast and story!

(above photo by Adrian Buckmaster)

Initial rough costume sketches for the Monarch and the Purple Spotted Swallowtail!  Costumes for all of the Butterfly Queens are being hand-made by incredible clothing and fashion designer Wheylan Dean-Ford.