Stephie Key, the daughter of National Party backbencher and former Prime Minister John Key, is planning to make a racy new sci-fi film - and she wants your help.
Her proposed short film, titled Lazarniverse, is set in a sci-fi themed brothel near Area 51 and will feature strippers and sex workers as the main characters.
Key is crowdfunding for the film, hoping to raise $35,000 for the "totally groovy short space movie".
She says while it "won't be R-rated", "there might be the occasional naughty nip slip".
"The film is more focused on sci-fi pop culture than sexytimes. Maybe don't bring your kids though", she explains on crowdfunding site Kickstarter.
Key says the tone of the short film will be very campy and tongue in cheek.
"Lazarniverse is set in the Amargosa Valley, Nevada, riding the fringes of Area 51 (that's about 2 hours drive from Las Vegas). Even deep into the Nevada desert you will surprisingly find yourself passing by roadside brothels and whorehouses," she writes.
"However none of them will be quite like the 'Pleasure Planet'. Because it's located in a hotbed for extra-terrestrial life and research, that's what they specialize in.
"Other words, its a sci-fi themed Brothel. You want to fornicate with a Vulcan or a girl from Venus. This is the place to go."
In the Kickstarter video, Key explains that she started writing the short film in May. She says she has already begun designing the costumes and the "visual landscape" of the film.
The sci-fi film is inspired by a legal brothel in Nevada called the Alien Cat House.
Key says that in the brothel, "the girls dress up as sci-fi characters or aliens for their clients to come in and live out these extra-terrestrial fantasies. I thought it was so brilliant; such a great idea that I've developed this entire story around it."
She says she has the experience to back up the project.
"I've been working with the mediums of photography, performance and video for quite a few years now. Photography-wise, I've been taking a lot of self-portraits where I'll design costumes and build sets and put myself into these different environments.
"I've also been making lots of short films. These have all been made on micro-budgets," she says in the explainer video.
As of Thursday afternoon, 11 backers had donated a total of $2,081.
Two months ago, Key said she was working on her "first feature length" film. Since then, it's been pared back to a 20-minute short.
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