What We Need
The funds we raise through this campaign will help provide:
Equipment Rental - Sound recording equipment, 4K cameras & lenses. Lighting equipment. Storage for media & needed accessories like batteries, flash drives, memory cards, bulbs, etc.
Licensing fees for images, articles, news broadcasts and archival materials & archival and stock footage subscriptions.
Travel to Boise, Idaho and Peace Park, Canada. Craft Services & additional lodging needs.
Pre-Production & Production Fees - Daily Rates for cinematography, bookkeeping, research & development, grant writing, office supplies, copy fees, postage, etc.
Post Production Fees - Daily rates for Editing, Finishing, Sound Design, Color Grading & Music Licensing Fees
Additional costs - Film Festival entries, DVD creation, DCP creation, Marketing, Set Safety equipment , appearance fees for interviewees, festival travel, theater rental for premier, poster printing. Makeup & hair for interviewees.
In any production there are always unforeseen needs. We have worked to keep the costs down by utilizing a skeleton crew, taking advantage of in-kind human capitol among the team, and vetting for rates that cover muli-tasking and mutiple-hat wearing on our team.
A fundraising dream: To be able to get better known leader in the LGBTQ community to narrate parts of our film. Any stretch funds will be used toward this. Unless we find a sponsor for this cost.
Other Ways You Can Help
There are other ways to help beyond donating, here are some suggestions that could propel our cause even further:
- Share this campaign with individuals that are passionate about this subject. This can help us reach more eyes & hearts and supports our ability to raise funds. A crowdfunding campaign is more successful with a bigger crowd.
-Hosting an event, class or service for your audience, organization or clients and then donating a portion of your proceeds to our cause.
-Connecting us to individuals that can do write ups in their publications, interviews on podcasts or radio shows and local news stations looking for LGBTQ History Month topics.
Our Sponsors:
Andrea Scott
Ann Cabano Films & Art
Arizona Consortium for the Arts
Catnip Design
Liberating Spirit Metropolitan Community Church is our official fiscal sponsor.
Love Glasses Revolution
Nancy Rosen Art
One 11 Artspace
Stephanie Dillon
The Just Be Love Project
Supported by a grant from:
Our Team:
Andrea Scott (Executive Producer)
Meet Andrea Scott, Executive Producer, photojournalist, print & radio journalist and visionary.
Andrea has received visibility through her book, exhibitions and editorial magazine work. She has published photo essays and portraits in magazines and newspapers throughout the Northwest.
Her book, Women with Scars, has been exhibited at DIA Art Foundation’s Printed Matter in New York affiliated with MOMA, and her photographs have been shown at the Sun Valley Museum of Art and in the Boise Art Museum’s traveling exhibit, Photographic Visions.
Scott is also a recipient of an Idaho Commission on the Arts Traditional Art grant. Her work is featured in the newly published book, “Go West: The Risk and Reward”.
Her documentary photography has won several awards, most recently from the Western Art Rodeo Association and Range Magazine. Her work has been featured by the Associated Press and in such publications as the Seattle Times, Idaho Statesman, Idaho Press, and Idaho Magazine.
She documented one of Idaho’s lesser-known communities, the Buckaroos of the Great Basin, through a photography and essay exhibit that was supported in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Scott has also worked at NPR affiliate KBSU at Boise State University.
Ann Cabano (Director & Producer)
Meet Ann Cabano, Director & Producer!
Ann is a passionate advocate for social change, a holistic educator, an award winning filmmaker, a published author and a lover of humans.
She is the founder of The Just Be Love Project, a social awareness platform dedicated to inspiring action for social change through film, advocacy and education and the founder of Ann Cabano Films & Art.
Her most recent documentary about a women raised in an abusive midwest cult entitled The Box; Out of the Impossible won the audience choice award at the Worldwide Women’s Film Festival in Arizona, was a semi-finalist at the Courage Film Festival in Berlin and just won The Merit of Awareness Award from the Awareness Film Festival. It was selected in February to screen at iconic TCL Chinese Theaters in Hollywood for Golden State Film Festival.
Prior to that Ann directed & produced a short narrative film written by a 14 year old female about suicide awareness. Stronger By This went on to win The Strength & Courage and Filmmaker Advocacy awards from The Worldwide Women’s Film Festival and was a finalist for Best PSA and Best Actress under 18 from the Olympus in Los Angeles.
In addition to filmmaking, Ann is a multimedia pop folk artist and four time published self help author. She studied stage & theater at Arizona State University, film at Scottsdale Community College, Business at University of Phoenix and has a bachelor of divinity in ministerial counseling and metaphysical healing though Southwest Institute of Healing Arts.
Learn more: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6780304/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Michelle 'Vinnie' Vincent (Assistant Producer)
Meet Michelle 'Vinnie' Vincent, in charge of the Research & Development Team for Boise 7!
Michelle believes that she was born a creative and recalls writing her first story at the age of 7, though she would go on to become a published author much later in life.
Michelle has spent the last 2 years as one of the coordinators over art & performance productions along with artist curation exhibitions for Mesa ArtSpace USA. Working with local musicians, spoken word, dance and performance artists of all kinds she has cultivated a passion for working with other creatives.
Vincent also serves on the board of the Downtown Theater Co. where she is a cast member and performer in their revival style singing group. Her talents go beyond singing and dancing into voice over work for a children's audio book.
Michelle's unique eye and vision can be seen in her lifestyle photography which she has been practicing since high school photography 101. She also expresses her artistic voice through her multi media art & exhibitions.
Michelle has always been obsessed with film, scene creation and editing and has worked on several indie productions as a camera operator, actress, narrator and production assistant.
She is currently working as assistant producer for the documentary film Off The Floor, Into the Mirror.
Learn more: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11766753/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr4
Keitumetse Mokhonwana (Cinematographer)
Meet Keitu! Our Cinematographer and talented visual story teller!
Keitumetse Mokhonwana is a visionary artist with a relentless passion for cinematography. Born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, Keitumetse’s affinity for storytelling developed at an early age through her involvement in theater and dance.
The world of performance art introduced her to the critical ways in which movement, light, and textures can be intentionally used to communicate powerful messages. This nascent curiosity drove her to attend film school in Cape Town at SAE Institute, where she made the commitment to filmmaking as a career.
Keitu moved to the US in 2013 where she began cultivating her craft as a 1st Assistant Camera and Cinematographer working on a wide range of projects including feature films, short films, music videos, documentaries, and experimental films.
Her time in the industry thus far has highlighted the stark difference between the content that is given space and the content she intends to create - content that centers around experiences like her own as a Black Queer African Woman.
Throughout the extent of her creative professional journey, she has placed an emphasis on creation that combines her technical orientation with her visionary insight to elevate nuanced Black experiences.
Keitu is based out of Los Angeles and Phoenix and is excited to join our team to help tell this important piece of history.
Brittonya Sanden (Editor)
Brittonya Sanden is a video editor with over ten years of experience in the theatrical, commercial, and documentary world. Working for two Hollywood based creative advertising companies she gained a wide variety of production experience working on projects for such companies as HBO. Sony Pictures, Warner Brothers, Amazon Prime and Netflix, to name a few.
An Arizona native, Brittonya lived and worked professionally in Los Angeles for several years, mastering her craft and deepening her love for editorial storytelling.
Throughout her involvement in a wide range of short form and long form mediums, Brittonya has always held documentary filmmaking in the highest regard. Working with The NYC Documentary Group, she participated on Girl Rising, an important film translated into 30 languages focused on making an impact on girl's education and empowerment worldwide.
One of her recent accomplishments was working on the Emmy nominated PBS documentary series American Epic Session produced by Robert Redford, Jack White and T Bone Burnett.
Brittonya truly believes in the radical change that can occur by giving a voice to the voiceless and empowering others to tell their personal stories.
Kelly Raithel (Fundraising Team & Social Media)
Kelly is a dedicated advocate for the LGBT community as well as a successful influencer across all social media platforms entertaining her 33K followers, with her greatest focus on her YouTube career.
Kelly just graduated at the top of her class from Los Angeles Film School with a Bachelors Degree in the Science of Digital Filmmaking. Kelly hopes to continue to grow and develop in the film industry as an editor & production designer, working in any other role in film that allows her to focus on advocating for Women’s Rights.
De LaPointe (Fundraising Team & Social Media)
Desirae is a proud 29 year old Lakota Native American & Hispanic Lesbian and Advocate for the LGBTQ+ community.
Desirae spreads her message across social media, with an emphasis on her 10K Tik Tok followers. Her advocacy reaches beyond the Internet to her active involvement in her hometown community in South Dakota.
She believes growing up submerged in diversity combined with extensive traveling over 15 states has fine tuned her ability to cross communication and social barriers with respect and relatability.
Desirae enjoys using her voice for positive change and important projects like The Forgotten Boise 7.
Taila Ouderkirk (Fundraising Team & Social Media)
Meet Taila Ouderkirk, Fundraising Team!
Taila was born & raised In Boise, Idaho where she currently resides with her 3 year old son, Legend, her biggest passion and focus.
As an out lesbian mom, it is important to her to raise her son surrounded by diversity and love. Her passion for family translates into mentorship for LGBTQ+ parents and those desiring to become parents, guiding them on their journey and educating on options. She shares her own journey into become a mom to Legend, and supports them through their own process.
Talla is also a social media influencer, using her platform to spread kindness, positivity, equality and self love to her 44K+ followers. She says it is important to help people, inspire change and hopefully leave them with a smile on their face.
Talla is personally inspired to help support The Boise Forgotten 7, documenting LGBTQ= history in her home town.
Learn More About The Film: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8302123/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr5
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