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Things We Do For Love: A Short Film

A teenage girl struggles with anorexia while her mother prepares for weight loss surgery.

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Things We Do For Love: A Short Film

Things We Do For Love: A Short Film

Things We Do For Love: A Short Film

Things We Do For Love: A Short Film

Things We Do For Love: A Short Film

A teenage girl struggles with anorexia while her mother prepares for weight loss surgery.

A teenage girl struggles with anorexia while her mother prepares for weight loss surgery.

A teenage girl struggles with anorexia while her mother prepares for weight loss surgery.

A teenage girl struggles with anorexia while her mother prepares for weight loss surgery.

Alexis Talbot
Alexis Talbot
Alexis Talbot
Alexis Talbot
1 Campaign |
Denton, United States
$300 USD 2 backers
37% of $800 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
Overview
An estimated 20% of women have eating disorders that have gone undiagnosed, unnoticed and untreated. We believe that these people go unnoticed because of how our media depicts eating disorders. (usually a pretty, very thin white girl) When the reality is that any person of any race, gender, or body type can suffer from an eating disorder. Things We Do For Love seeks to change the way that eating disorders are depicted and highlight the experiences of people who you might not realize have one.

Things We Do For Love is a essentially a story about Alison, an introverted and snarky teenage girl who keeps a close document on everything she eats, until day by day it consumes her life.  Her only distraction is a strange follower who is dangerous and clever, a girl with a paper bag over her face who pretends to be her friend, but is unclear about if she ever really wants to be. Meanwhile,  her mother is distracted by her upcoming clearance to get a weight loss surgery that she hopes might save her marriage. 

  • Our hope with this film is to spread awareness about eating disorders, in the sense that the people who suffer from them aren't the people who usually are depicted on screen. 
  • We also hope to illustrate how an eating disorder feels to someone experiencing it, how a person might choose to continue having an eating disorder, or even be unaware of it's existence.

 

  • At it's heart this film is a family drama, and because of this we need to rent an appropriate home for it to take place in. 
  • We are also very invested in the safety and happiness of our crew, so part of the funds will be dedicated to making sure that they are properly fed and kept safe during our production. 
  • Finally, we would like the message of our film to spread as widely as possible, and so we plan on distributing our film through film festivals as a means to have our story heard. Film  Festivals can cost anywhere from  $20 to $50 dollars to enter. 
  • Making films can be pretty expensive, if our goal isn't reached, the funds we do receive will go towards feeding and transportation of our crew, because their well-being is the most important part of our production.

If you can't contribute funds to our production, but you would still like to help our campaign out, please don't be afraid to follow our social media accounts ( @forlovefilms on Instagram and Twitter) and speak out about the film's progress. Essentially, this film is about our message, and so any sort of social media shout out or share will help! Together we can make a great change!

 

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Letters Last Forever

Letters Last Forever

$10 USD
You will receive a written thank you note from the producers, as well as a video thanking you for your donation.
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  • Written Note From Producers
  • Video Message From Producers
Estimated Shipping
June 2019
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Sticking To It

Sticking To It

$20 USD
This backer will receive our written thanks and video, as well as a sticker of the paper bag girl and our promotional poster.
Included Items
  • Written Note From Producers
  • Video Message From Producers
  • A Sticker of Paper Bag Girl
  • A Poster
Estimated Shipping
June 2019
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Carry Out

Carry Out

$50 USD
This backer will receive a cool tote bag with our film's logo, their name in the credits, and all of the other perks listed above.
Included Items
  • Written Note From Producers
  • Video Message From Producers
  • A Sticker of Paper Bag Girl
  • A Poster
  • A tote with our logo
  • Your Name in the Credits
Estimated Shipping
June 2019
0 out of 10 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
Producer's Credit

Producer's Credit

$100 USD
You will get all of the previous perks, but you will also get credited as an associate producer for our film!
Included Items
  • Written Note From Producers
  • Video Message From Producers
  • A Sticker of Paper Bag Girl
  • A Poster
  • A tote with our logo
  • Associate Producer Credit
Estimated Shipping
June 2019
0 out of 10 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

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