Dreams of the Last Butterflies

CONTEST HAPPENING RIGHT NOW! WIN A ‘DREAMS OF THE LAST BUTTERFLIES’ T-SHIRT!!  Just guess the right butterfly and you could win one of the awesome new sustainable ‘eco-shirts’ from the movie!  It’s easy, you can enter to win on the official facebook page!

A new still from the film!  Evgeniya Radilova stars as the Acraea Swordtail Butterfly Queen.

New promo image for Dreams of the Last Butterflies!  Evgeniya Radilova as the Acraea Swordtail Queen.  Photo by Luz Maxine Nienow Castelazo.

WE wanted to say THANK YOU once again to all of the incredible, fantastic people that put in donations and their time to help spread the Butterflies word. Yesterday was such a wild ride!! We are nearly overwhelmed with gratitude and amazement today. This movie is as much yours as it is ours now! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Ali Luminescent as the Purple Spotted Swallowtail Queen. Only 6 days left to donate and help us make our Dream of the Last Butterflies film a reality!

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Our first photo of Ali Luminescent as the Purple Spotted Swallowtail Queen.

Photographer: Benjamin Mobley

You can help! Only 9 days left to help us fund our film, Dreams of the Last Butterflies!

The wait is over!  Watch the video, check out our awesome prizes - and donate if you believe!  THANK YOU!! 

Please help us spread the link and message across the world!

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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 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)

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.