Thursday, May 24, 2012

Random Acts of In-Kindness

There is a reason why most people leave when the credits start to roll - there are a LOT of people involved in making a film and in fantasy-land where everybody gets paid what they're worth, that adds up to a LOT of money.  Money that most indie filmmakers don't have.

So how do we do it? Recently crowd-sourcing platforms like Indiegogo and Kickstarter have been a boon for independent projects of all kinds.  We have our own campaign going (ONLY 4 DAYS LEFT!!) if you're wondering what to do with all that pesky cash lying around.

But the REAL secret to making big things happen is the in-kindess, if you will, of others.

Just yesterday we got word that Conrad Grebel University College at University of Waterloo have provided us with one of their apartment units at a considerable discount to help us house our cast and crew!

Our crew will be super happy when they learn that though they will be working for free (in-kindness, holla!), they will be sleeping on real beds, not just on available floorspace like at a 24-hour Korean bathhouse:



And MCC Thrift Shops in our area have let us use their entire store as a prop house. Costume, furniture, anything that could be in a thrift store, it's ours for the using. That so incredibly in-kind of them!

This isn't even getting into our cast and crew who are donating huge amounts of time and talent to help make this production something we can all be proud of.

In other words: THANK YOU. To everybody who is giving cash, to the organizations and individuals who are pitching in to pull things together for us, we can't do this without you... and for a film about helping and community support, we wouldn't have it any other way!


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