Short Summary
Our film, Somewhere Together, builds awareness of the human and social need for community and belonging within the United States.
To summarize our film, when an apartment building catches fire, six apartments, packed with people split by heated arguments, are thrust down a stairwell. In this musical short film, each person must overlook their differences and rely on each other to escape their home.
American culture has always revolved around the ‘rugged individual’, dating back to the 18th century ‘bootstrap’ story. And since our inception, we’ve built a system on the idea that we are at our best when in competition with each other. Even the stories we tell, following the hero/protagonist, allude to the dark truth of our American mindset; your goal is yourself.
In a time of blatant hate and deceit, it has never been a more pressing moment to counter the misinformation and misdirection that American leadership is standardizing to our children, future leaders, and the rest of the world.
With your contribution, we can continue our pre-production process to lead out film into production in October 2025.
What We Need & What You Get
For our initial pre-production costs, we hope to raise $2,000 to fund our most important aspect of the film, the music. We hope to compose eight (8) songs for our sung-through musical ($250/song).
When we come around to our second campaign, we hope to raise an additional $18,000 for the remaining pre-production and production costs. We state this because in the case that we exceed our first goal, the remaining will go towards the rest of the film budget.
The breakdown:
- Talent: $4,700
- Crafty: $2,600
- Locations (5 day shoot in NYC): $3,500
- Art and Wardrobe Department: $3,350
- Transportation (We are flying out our co-creators from all over the country!):$2,100
- Recording the music: $1,500
- Post and Exhibition: $1,000
Total: $18,750
Contribution Perks:
- Tier 1 - Contributions of $5 or more: Handwritten thank you's from the team!
- Tier 2 - Contributions of $30 or more: Perks of tier 1 + invitation to our private screening with cast, and crew, with talk back from directors (Date TBD) and a copy of the film for sharing.
- Tier 3: Contributions of $100 or more: Perks of tier 1 & 2 + credit as "Producer" in the film.
- Tier 4: Contributions of $200 or more: Perks of 1 & 2 + "Executive Producer" credit & 15% of your donation will be contributed to one of the following charities of your choosing:
- We want to extend support to other social impact campaigns and charities when we are able. Here is a list of charities and non-profits that align with what our project is trying to have an impact on:
- The Trevor Project (LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention)
- Paws with a Cause (Provides assistant dogs to people with disabilities)
- Immigrant Defense Project (Provides legal, social, and community resources to immigrants coming into the US)
- Black Girls WILL Get Love (Provides young black girls and women with programs and experiences to bolster confidence and change the way they are viewed in society)
- Hopa Mountain (Provide sustainable improvements in economic, environmental, and social health to indigenous leaders in their communities)
The Impact
After the film is finished, we hope to embark on our impact campaign. This includes bringing our film into public screenings to get as many eyes on it as possible. We will host talk-backs with the six (6) co-creators to cultivate conversations about our mission.
We are trying to create a conservation with our visual medium and we hope you will help us in achieving that.
Other Ways You Can Help
- Share our next campaign with your friends and family! All eyes on us would be the absolute most help but it will be more effective to share the following campaign to your outer circles than this one!
- Check out our social media to keep track of our film's progress. You can find our Instragram account here: https://www.instagram.com/somewheretogether_fil...
