ANNE DARK — A Female-Led Superhero Film Launched on Kickstarter

Let’s be honest, movies in which the main superhero is a female are quite uncommon. Films with female leads are thankfully becoming a bit more of a regular thing, but they rarely include a strong female character with superpowers as the lead hero. Even more rare? When that superhero is not only female, but also paranormal.

Anne Dark is intriguing live-action short superhero film that includes such a female as the central character. It tells the story of “a teen with dark superpowers, [who] fights against forces of darkness to save the world and enact revenge for her sister's death.” Unfortunately, it hasn’t gone into production yet and is still only a Kickstarter project.

Creator Brent Sims points out:

Anne Dark is my sophomore live-action short film with a scale twenty times larger than Grave Shivers and introduces the world to a strong female superhero role model which is rarely seen in modern cinema. Almost every scene of this magical story has practical and digital visual effects to bring it to life. I have assembled an international cast and crew of some of the most talented and diverse professionals working in entertainment today to create a female driven paranormal superhero project. If the 80s, Hellboy, Dune, and Buffy had a badass lovechild it would be Anne Dark.

The story sounds really interesting and the concept art is pretty cool. You can take a look at the video and images below and tell us what you think about it.