The locavore movement has extended well beyond foodstuffs. Locally-made clothing? Boom, ask done. Locally-made furniture? Oh yeah it’s around. Locally-made tunes? YOU KNOW WE GOT THAT. And – as we know you’ve been asking – a Boston-born movie that fills the viewer with all the wonderment, wanderlust, and weeping-from-equal-parts-joy/heartbreak that one gets from reading “Where the Wild Things Are” in the middle of a theatre screening “Beasts of the Southern Wild”? YOU CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN.

“The Whistler” is an Emerson Capstone Project from student filmmaker Peter Rosati; it’s fueled by several dozen ridiculously talented Boston-based men and women and will include an original score from local musician Jacob Rosati (obvious relation; maybe you know him from The New Complainers or Skinny Bones or being tall at concerts). “The Whistler” concerns a little kid and a magical creature and a plot to save it from someone else’s plot to kill/kidnap/otherwise harm it. Actually, maybe ignore me and just watch the Kickstarter video; it gets me every time.

Sounds awesome right?! It’s only got about a week to make up the money they need to start filming in March, so what are you waiting for? Pitch it some dough and feel free to give yourself credit for sustaining art in this fair city:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/945831182/the-whistler-0

-Laura Jane Brubaker