Why your donation is important?
Home is a film that highlights the struggle of adopted kids. According to UNICEF, an estimated 153 million children worldwide are orphans. This is 8.4 % of all children in the world. The number of orphans is increasing dramatically. Not all orphaned children have a chance to be adopted and often experience many difficulties throughout their lifetime. What can we do to make a difference? Increase awareness. You can help change this, by your donation today! With your support, we can bring this short film into the minds and hearts of thousands of people worldwide to increase awareness about child abandonment. Your donation may change someone's life!
What does your contribution provide?
Your donation supports the efforts of an entire team of young artists working in fields ranging from cinematography to production design to visual effects to sound and performance. Our film is currently 50% complete. Your support allows us to finish the journey!
Our primary goal of $6,500 allows us to finish the actual film by the end of this year. That also includes securing equipment, paying for location permits, wardrobe and prop fees, a music score, catering and transportation for our crew, etc.
An additional $1,500 allows us to submit to festivals and pay for additional costs (ex: merchandise and film publicity).
Any contribution is greatly appreciated!
Story
The title Home does not refer to a physical place but refers to a missing emotional puzzle in Tamara’s heart, one that she tries to resolve. Despite having many difficulties in her childhood including being born with clubbed feet, experiencing malnutrition, and growing up not knowing her background, Tamara has stood up against many hardships, and has fought for her dreams. The style of this film is poetic using symbols as metaphors for love, memories, and emotional struggles. Home is structured in the form of a narrative short film, and notably, Tamara Isaak-Harrington portrays herself and her journey.
Tamara's journey is one of many regarding children who were adopted and currently struggle with questions pertaining to who they are. No matter how happy a child is with their adoptive family today, or how young they were when placed, being adopted is an important part of an individual's identity. Those who were adopted might never know their birth parents, the circumstances around their adoption or even their real birth date. For them, part of piecing together a strong identity may be discovered in learning to live without knowing important truths about themselves.
About Me
Fatemeh Hosseini is a filmmaker and painter from Mashhad, Iran. She is the writer and director of Home, and currently a graduate student at The Savannah College of Art and Design studying in Motion Media. Her interests in filmmaking began during her childhood while growing up in a creative environment where she learned about both Iranian and international filmmakers. Since then, cinema had become an inseparable part of her life. Today, Fatemeh views filmmaking as a medium which depicts life as a dream and points to the core of existence, which for her is a process of emotional and spiritual transformation. She earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Painting from the universities of Tehran and Alzahra respectively. Fatemeh's fine art background has significantly impacted and positively influenced her style in filmmaking.
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