Apr 2026
World Premiere in London · 16th May 2026
We are proud to announce, that our world premiere will be at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival.
THE COLOR
A 30-minute sci-fi horror film
— Trailer
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— What it took
4Years
8month of set building
311VFX Shots
14Shooting Days
Over four years. Low Budget. Small crew. 311 visual effects shots.
— Overview
Logline
She wakes up in a research station with no memory and no way out. The crew is gone. Something happened here, and she is the only one left who can piece it together. To survive, she has to face amnesia, betrayal and a force that should not exist.
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— Cast
Ewa
Winner of the Goldene Kamera for Best Newcomer for Alles Isy. Other work includes Druck, Tatort, Die Discounter, and The Roads Not Taken alongside Javier Bardem and Elle Fanning.
Jakow
Peter John Sinclair
Irish actor, based in Ireland. He has appeared in productions including Game of Thrones, Vikings, Normal People, and Hardy Bucks.
> REMAINING CREW:
— Proof of concept
Why
Why not?
Total Production
over 4 Years
Runtime
30 min
Budget
Low - self-financed
Set Building
8 Month
Shooting Days
14
VFX Shots
311
AI Used
None
WHAT IS IT
We really miss the good old sci-fi horror films. So we made one ourselves.
How much real production value can a small team achieve with modern tools and almost no budget?
THE COLOR is a self-financed passion project that took over four years to finish. We shot it in 14 days with a very small crew, on sets the director and producer built by hand with help from friends and interns who believed in the project.
Post-production took more than three years. Over 300 visual effects shots were created by a three-person team led by director and VFX artist Lukas Kunzmann. No generative AI was used. All human made. The final mix was completed in Dolby Atmos by producer and mixing engineer Jürgen Daßing, in a new 7.1.4 setup we built in his studio for the project.
We are happy to share the final result with you. And this is only the beginning — the feature script is now in active development.
— Creator
Lukas Kunzmann
Filmmaker · VFX Artist
Lukas Kunzmann is a self-taught filmmaker based in Germany.
As a visual effects artist he has worked on feature films for Blumhouse, Universal, Sony, Amazon Prime and Netflix.
He directs narrative films with extensive visual effects, alongside music videos and commercials.
THE COLOR is his first longer narrative project — a self-financed, low-budget short he developed, directed, and largely post-produced himself over four years, together with a small crew.
— Main Crew
Writer · Director · Production Design · VFX · Sound Design
Lukas Kunzmann
Executive Producer · Production Design · Mix
Jürgen Daßing
Executive Producer
Chris DeFaria
Cast
Milena Tscharntke · Peter John Sinclair · Charles Morillon · Akiko Hitomi
Director of Photography
Johannes Schmidt
Editor
Carsten Kurpanek
Original Score
William Morris
Color Grading
Joakim Rissveds
3D Generalist
Jan Ruppert
Digital Matte Painter
Steven Cormann
Additional VFX
Highway VFX
Still Photography
Ingo Peters
Stunt Coordinator
Steffen Jung
Produced by
Lukas Kunzmann · Jürgen Daßing
Unfortunately we can't list the full credits here. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this project from the bottom of our hearts. <3
— Recognition
— Latest transmissions
Jan 2026
Short Film Complete
After over four years, VFX, Grading and final Dolby Atmos mix are complete. The film is done.
May 2025
FMX Showcase
Lukas was invited by MAXON to present and showcase the making of the shortfilm and how the VFX were approached using various tools from MAXON. First exclusive teaser was shown there.
2021 – 2025
Production · Post Production
Over four years of work to complete the short film
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— Funded & Supported by
Sparkasse Mainfranken · Druckertankstelle Wuerzburg · Cineworld Dettelbach · Sir Quickly · MARKTCAFÉ BRANDSTETTER · Aputure · Pille Film · Billy's Lens Rent · SPECTRAL GmbH & CO KG · An Chroi Enterprise Centre Tubbercurry Ireland
· Dropout Films · ANQER