Well, it’s been a week since we launched this campaign and I feel like a robot learning emotions. I am so inspired and grateful. Unnerving to hear from a writer but: words simply fail. We had plans to beg and plead to get to our initial goal of $75,000 and in under a week we hit our absolute-blue-sky-probably-couldn’t-happen-right? goal of $180,000!?!??!?!
We reached that goal and then some at our fundraiser show this past Saturday at Dynasty Typewriter was a massive success! Over 2,500 people watched online. I personally loved the show because I put all of my favorite, funniest performers in it and just got to watch them be insane. I continue to be outrageously proud and embarrassed by my riches in friends and donations to independent film.
In addition to titillating equestrian interactions, Paraloubis played their first show, Sam Reich and Zac Oyama sent beautiful, heartfelt and deeply personal congratulatory videos and my friends dubbed over scenes of my parents acting from the 80s. Oh, and Brennan and Jenson kissed on the mouth while we shot off confetti canons. For cinema!!!!!
You can still get a ticket and watch the show!
We also played a never before seen (and very much not yet colorized or sound mixed) clip (obviouslythatswhyweneedthemoney) starring myself and Brennan as our characters Tillie and Owen from Science Care!
Here it is, a clip from the movie!
We’ve hit our goal, so what does that mean? Well, we’re not exactly sure yet! We’re putting our heads together to find out how we’re going to allot these gorgeous funds for the project going forward. But the more backers, the better! We’ve started to get the attention of some agencies and distributors. Over 3,000 people have backed this project and this makes development people go, “Hey, wait, why didn’t I think of this and why am I not getting any of this praise or money?” I obviously think very highly of development people. So what if folks keep joining, even at $1 - just to show Hollywood how powerful and cool this audience is for this film? Idk, just a thought!!!!
here’s a link to back the kickstarter
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Izzy