Kickstart This: ‘The Last Draw’, ‘Best Friends Forever’ and ‘100 Yen’

Welcome to another edition of Kickstart This, FirstShowing’s weekly column dedicated to spreading the word about cool new independent projects that need your help to get made. This week, we’ll be focusing on three different movies that need a helping hand. The Last Draw is a short film about a western duel in the afterlife; Brea Grant’s Best Friends Forever follows two girls on a road trip during the apocalypse; and finally 100 Yen: The Japanese Arcade Experience highlights the subculture of arcade gaming that’s still happening in Japan. Read on to find out more about each one, and support these projects if you can! First up, we’ve got The Last Draw. While writer/director Jon Earnest doesn’t have any footage to show us quite yet, the concept for this film has me sold already: two cowboy figures get into a battle in the afterlife based on an incident in their previous …