{"id":799557,"date":"2026-10-11T22:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T22:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799557\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T22:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T22:18:09","slug":"ayr-horror-film-reaches-20000-crowdfunding-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799557\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayr horror film reaches \u00a320,000 crowdfunding target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Fulfilment Pictures, a production company based in Ayr, says the money will support Initial Contact, a supernatural thriller filmed across Ayr and Callander this summer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The production had received backing from Creative Scotland before the fundraising campaign began.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It follows a priest posing as a lawyer as he interviews a woman accused of killing her family.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  During the conversation, the woman may be revealed as a sinister, otherworldly presence.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The filmmakers are now moving into post-production, where the film will be edited.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They aim to complete it in the new year and hope to showcase it in Ayr before taking it on a festival run.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Initial Contact will then be used as a proof of concept while the company pitches its feature film, Room 22.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Fulfilment Pictures had asked the public for help completing the film. It had raised more than half of its target before the final total was reached.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Donations made before August 25 were eligible for Creative Scotland\u2019s Crowdmatch scheme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The scheme could match public contributions pound-for-pound up to \u00a310,000, subject to its limits.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The company thanked people who donated and said the support had helped give the film extra exposure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fulfilment Pictures, a production company based in Ayr, says the money will support Initial Contact, a supernatural thriller&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-799557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}