WHAT IS PEPPER & PAUL?

At Pepperandpaul.com you will be able to quickly Shop Online and Do Good and See Amazing Videos all in the same place. We aim to be better than a charity! This caused-based company will offer you a unique cinematic shopping experience, while permanently improving the consumer marketplace and creating a brighter future for everyone. Support Us in making this happen!

We are a passionate team hailing from several different backgrounds - fashion, design, branding, social media, music, business development, and film - who are dedicated to creating this new startup with your generous help. 

Once this campaign is successful, Pepper & Paul will "marry beauty with awareness", and inspire people to engage in a more compassionate and sustainable future. Our short films will feature specially curated, high quality, ethically and environmentally conscious products that you can purchase on our website. The website will also feature an online marketplace that will present you with an even wider array of great products from brands that give back. 

Our hope is that our film series and marketplace will work together to contribute to the evolution of the online consumer marketplace – promoting shopping habits that will benefit ourselves, our communities, and our environment.

To boil it down, we’re providing beautiful films AND guilt-free shopping all in one place!

Like you, we believe in improving our world. Please support us and help drive the success of brands that strive to make a positive impact.

THE FILMS

Watch our Demo Short Film:

Pepper & Paul stories are imaginative, heartfelt and humanistic stories about love. Our stories are about our minds, how we think, how we act, our memories and our dreams. The story plots will be relatable and visually captivating but also infused with animation and surrealistic “dream state” sequences to offer our viewers different perspectives on everyday life. 

Here’s what makes our short film series so cool:

The Seasons - We will release one season in the spring, and one in the fall. Each episode will last approximately 3 minutes, and will be released online every Monday at 1 p.m., creating a perfect ‘lunch break romance’. Each season will focus on two central characters and a unique dynamic that unfolds between them. Different seasons will offer new plots and a diverse array of characters, representing a sample of the wider range of wonderful people we meet around New York City and beyond.

The Characters - Our characters are good at heart but are imperfect, making mistakes, meeting challenges, and learning as they go. They connect with their highly developed imaginations and dreams nearly as much as to the ‘real’ world; often exploring their lives, hopes, fears, and relationships in visual dreams and fantasies.  

The Films - And like our demo video above, each episode will be written without dialogue, pushing the films toward the intensely visual. This causes us to explore life with a fresh set of eyes – in a way that focuses on the small, magical details of our lives and environments that we are often too busy to notice or appreciate – and in a way that makes us more present and aware. 

THE IMPACT

We are not alone in this movement to support great products made in an ethical manner. There are a growing number of brands that are taking a sustainable approach to their businesses, along with a growing demand for greater access to those brands. This is why we are presenting designers and brands whose products and businesses involve any number of the following properties:

• profits to philanthropy
• recycled or eco-conscious materials
• fair trade
• local production
• handcrafted
• non-disposable & well-made
• cruelty free

WHAT YOUR DONATION PROVIDES 

Your contributions will allow us to dedicate ourselves fully to producing three short films featuring ethical products, as well as constructing our website, so that we can demonstrate a functioning model of our business and build from there.  

Your support will get us off the ground. But we can't do it without you. 

We will put our Indiegogo funding towards:

• A web site (front and back end design and programming) 
  
• Production of 3 short films  (Pre-Production: pre-planning, writing, location scouting, etc.; Production: equipment, crew and talent, food and location fees; Post-production: editing, music and sound)
• A small studio space for production, styling, staff

WHAT YOU GET: PERKS

APPEAR ON OUR WEBSITE

Join those who are creating an inspiring future by literally showing your support. 

PEPPER & PAUL LID

We designed this hat to use your forehead as a billboard for a great cause!
(No really, we think it's a cool hat we hope you'll enjoy it.)

PEPPER'S RUMI POEM ORGANIC TEE-SHIRT 

Watch our demo film (above) and see the inspiration for this design!

(Poem: 'if you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy you and everyone around you would fly up like doves' - Rumi)

Designed by animator and artist, Marcos Pacheco

PEPPER & PAUL COTTON TOTE

Fill it with all your inspirations!

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ORIGINAL ART FOR PEPPER & PAUL

Limited edition art prints by Swedish pop artist, Olga Cisterna

Postcard or 16" x 20" poster:

Set of four coasters with original artwork by Swedish pop artist, Olga Cisterna:

         OTHER WAYS YOU CAN HELP

If you’ve donated to us, THANK YOU! 

Whether you can or cannot contribute but are enthusiastic about Pepper and Paul, you can help spread the word! All support is appreciated!

UPDATE: We are offering a referral contest!! Whoever totals the most referrals at the end of our campaign will WIN A FREE "TEAMMATE" BOX. So spread the word about our campaign far and wide!

Use the Indiegogo share tools to tell your friends about Pepper and Paul, or at:

Twitter https://twitter.com/pepperandpaul

Facebook www.facebook.com/PepperAndPaul

Instagram http://instagram.com/pepperandpaul

OUR TEAM

     Henric Olsson-Weller, Creator, Director, Writer

Paisley Gregg, Co-Founder, Executive Producer

      Lit Kilpatrick, Co-Founder, Writer, Director 

     J. Matthew Riva, Digital Creative Director

     Zeus Morand, Directory of Photography    

  Evan Wilson, Composer                                       

   Marcos Pacheco, ideasandstuff.net, Animation

   Natalie Cain-Bayes, Producer

   Amy Olsson-Weller, Art Direction, Social Media

   Ellie Eckert, Social Media Manager, Stylist

   Molly Peters, Stylist

   Daphna Guttin, Stylist

Mikael Larsson, Financial Advisor

Last but not least!

   Kate Stone, Actor, "Pepper"

  Ben Otto, Actor, "Paul"