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FTCTV to $10k: Smoke City, Buenos Dias Tijuana

Director Cami Thomas to raise $10k ($27k stretch) to produce Smoke City & Buenos Dias Tijuana

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FTCTV to $10k: Smoke City, Buenos Dias Tijuana

FTCTV to $10k: Smoke City, Buenos Dias Tijuana

FTCTV to $10k: Smoke City, Buenos Dias Tijuana

FTCTV to $10k: Smoke City, Buenos Dias Tijuana

FTCTV to $10k: Smoke City, Buenos Dias Tijuana

Director Cami Thomas to raise $10k ($27k stretch) to produce Smoke City & Buenos Dias Tijuana

Director Cami Thomas to raise $10k ($27k stretch) to produce Smoke City & Buenos Dias Tijuana

Director Cami Thomas to raise $10k ($27k stretch) to produce Smoke City & Buenos Dias Tijuana

Director Cami Thomas to raise $10k ($27k stretch) to produce Smoke City & Buenos Dias Tijuana

Cami Thomas
Cami Thomas
Cami Thomas
Cami Thomas
1 Campaign |
ST LOUIS, United States
$1,840 USD 57 backers
6% of $27,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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Overview
On July 16th 2019, St. Louis director Cami Thomas and the FTCTV team are launching an Indigogo campaign to raise $10,000, with a stretch goal of $27,000. The funds will allow for the filming and editing of the third installment of the Smoke City docuseries, Smoke City: Ultimo, which will be a full-length film, as well as the production costs for Mexico-based documentary titled "Buenos Dias Tijuana".

In a Nutshell

On July 16th 2019, St. Louis director Cami Thomas and the FTCTV team are launching an Indigogo campaign to raise $10,000, with a stretch goal of $27,000. The funds will allow for the filming and editing of the third installment of the Smoke City docuseries, Smoke City: Ultimo, which will be a full-length film, as well as the production costs for Mexico-based documentary titled "Buenos Dias Tijuana".

What is Smoke City and Smoke City: Ultimo?

The Smoke City documentary series, by St. Louis director Cami Thomas, is a nationally-acclaimed deep-dive into St. Louis. The project covers life in St. Louis after the Ferguson uprising, as the city still struggles to have the conversations that has led to its repeated explosive socio-political moments. In the context of the United States in 2019, the series addresses St. Louis’, and society’s, hesitance to come to terms with its troubled past, through the lens of captivating interviews from St. Louis’ most misunderstood residents.

The ultimate goal, and result, of the Smoke City documentary series is to bring together the many corners of St. Louis, uplift our commonalities instead of our differences, and set the stage for a prosperous and more inclusive St. Louis experience, for every resident of any demographic.​

What's Unique About Smoke City: Ultimo?

Smoke City: Ultimo is the third, and final, installment of the Smoke City series. While Seasons 1 and 2 were broken up into episodes, Smoke City: Ultimo will be Cami Thomas’ first ever full-length feature, as a full-scale 120 minute documentary. Preceding wide-scale national distribution, there will be over a dozen live screenings and Q&A sessions across St. Louis. Screenings will be held in middle school, high school, and college campuses in the city, as well as select organizations that would like to bring the screening, and attached lesson plan/training, to their offices.

Screenings and increased guerrilla marketing throughout St. Louis City and St. Louis county will spread local reach to 3x compared to Season 2, at an estimated 10k unique viewers via live city screenings, an estimated additional 5k unique viewers through the local and national film festival circuit, and estimated additional 2k viewers in the international film festival circuit, and estimated 20k unique online viewers via FTCTVofficial.com. Coupled with the content rollout, will also be a robust guerrilla and web marketing campaign, with a three phase street team/postering strategy, an estimated 200k St. Louis area web impressions from social media ad campaign, display ads, and PPC web advertising. Smoke City has already been covered in national and local media.

What will my contributions be used for?

Contributions will go towards:
Public programming, educational programming to run in conjunction with the documentary (middle schools, high schools, youth programs, work/office settings) to teach about implicit biases and how to challenge your own, to make for a more inclusive city.
Film festival submission fees
Production gear and costs
Closed captioning file cost (to have captions in English and Spanish)
Artist fees for film scoring (done by an STL producer)
Additional FTCTV programming

 

Who are we?

FTCTV is spearheaded by St. Louis director and producer Cami Thomas. In addition to creating documentary content (featured in Teen Vogue, NPR, ALIVE Magazine, St. Louis Mag and more), Thomas also touts a robust formal business background. Following internships at The World Trade Center New Orleans and ALIVE Magazine, Thomas has gone on to work in marketing and sales for Tesla Motors, and most recently as the Field Marketing Specialist and Culture Marketing Specialist for Red Bull North America.

Calvin Tigre has been an integral eye for FTCTV productions, including acting as Assistant Director for both seasons of the Smoke City documentary series. Calvin is the leader of the Ursa Major musical duo, freelance videographer, and long-time St. Louis advocate and resident. 

 

Alexena Lopez is a User Experience Designer with an eye for building more inclusive, empathy-based solutions for companies in the St. Louis area. She currently serves as the youngest board member of Saint Louis User Experience Group, where she works to bring software design to a younger generation.

 

Caroline Fan is a consultant who has helped arts organizations and startups with crowdfunding campaigns. She previously served as Program Director for a film festival in New York and produced a short documentary.

 

 

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