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Timberwood TV Series

The show about summer camp you've always wanted! Watch the pilot for FREE!! (in the SECOND video)

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Timberwood TV Series

Timberwood TV Series

Timberwood TV Series

Timberwood TV Series

Timberwood TV Series

The show about summer camp you've always wanted! Watch the pilot for FREE!! (in the SECOND video)

The show about summer camp you've always wanted! Watch the pilot for FREE!! (in the SECOND video)

The show about summer camp you've always wanted! Watch the pilot for FREE!! (in the SECOND video)

The show about summer camp you've always wanted! Watch the pilot for FREE!! (in the SECOND video)

Blake McWilliam
Blake McWilliam
Blake McWilliam
Blake McWilliam
1 Campaign |
Camp Timberwood, United States
$12,396 USD 133 backers
2% of $500,000 Fixed Goal Fixed Goal
Overview
A new comedy series about summer camp! You can watch the WHOLE first episode for free above. And if you like the show and want to see more, contribute to this campaign and we'll go make the rest! Easy right?

If you’ve made it here it means you've probably already watched the very first episode of Timberwood! Thanks for watching, we really appreciate it! If you haven’t watched it yet, go ahead and click play on the video at the top of the page...

Can you believe we shot that episode completely independently last summer? We did it all. Wrote it. Produced it. Directed it. Edited it. Starred in it. Everything.  We even put our money where our mouth is. Big time. Our director put up 150K of his own money to make the first episode! And since he didn't have it in cash, he did it by selling his house...

Now we want to make the rest of the first season for you to enjoy. 

Here’s the plan: You pre-order the first season of the show now, just like you might have anyway, and we use that money to fund the production of the rest of the episodes! Not only are you supporting the show by buying the first season, but you’re also helping fund it at the same time! And without you, there will only ever be this one episode. With your help we can shoot the whole first season of Timberwood this spring and send it to you as soon as it’s done!

If we raise $500,000 or more, we’ll be able to shoot a six-episode first season. But $500,000 is the bare minimum. The more we raise, the more episodes we can shoot and the better the show will be!

We’ve got so many great scripts written and we want to share them all! Visiting Day, Colour War, an Inter-Camp Roller Hockey Tournament, could Maricia actually exist? With the help of our fans, we’ll be able to raise the money we need and get this show made!

We know that $500,000 sounds like a lot of money. And really, it IS a lot of money. But when we’re talking about producing an ENTIRE SEASON of a TV show, this is a TINY budget. Look at the average cost to produce ONE episode of some of your favourite shows:

Back in the early 2000’s our director, Blake, worked as a counselor at a summer camp in upstate New York. In his words, the experience literally “changed his life”. Since then he’s wanted to make a fun, hilarious show that captures the actual experience he and so many other campers and counselors had.

Sure there have been other shows and movies about summer camp - satirical and goofy versions, camper point-of-view versions, versions where everyone gets (spoiler alert) murdered at the end, and even a version where 45-year-old Paul Rudd plays a 16 year old (I mean, he is pretty charming).

But to us, there’s never been a show that’s captured what it’s really like to work at a summer camp in an authentic way. That’s our goal – to tell a coming of age story set at summer camp in the tradition of Superbad or Dazed and Confused. 

Fast-forward from the early 2000s to two years ago. Blake and his two best friends, Ian and AJ, got to work writing that very show! We decided to call it Timberwood. And when it was all done, after months of hard work and endless writing sessions, we looked down at the hundreds of pieces of paper, turned to each other, and asked, now what? How do we actually go out and make this thing we just wrote? (We didn't actually print them for no reason, that would be wasteful).

The traditional way to do it would be to try to sell the scripts in Hollywood. The only problem with that is when someone does buy the scripts they definitely wouldn’t let us make the show we want to make, or the way we want to make it (mostly because we aren’t JJ Abrams or The Rock - although Ian did have a very brief/pathetic wrestling career).

Looking at it closer, producing this show independently meant we could do a whole episode for a fraction of what it would take a Hollywood production – mostly because we can work with a way smaller crew and be way more efficient as a result.

Then the unthinkable happened. Blake decided to sell his house - yes, he sold his actual house! - to raise enough money for us to spend a week up in the Catskills last August shooting the first episode! That’s the one you just watched for free!

Now we want to finish what we started and tell the rest of the story. But Blake doesn’t have any more houses to sell, so we need your help! If you liked the pilot episode of Timberwood and you want to see more, you can directly be a part of making it happen and join us on this adventure! When else do you get to become a producer for $10?

Apart from pre-ordering the first season, there’s all sorts of other ways you can be a part of Timberwood, with plenty of fun perks to go along with your contribution, from T-shirts and a Counselor’s Essentials Kit to VIP Tickets to the premiere in NYC or even getting to be an extra on the show!

Everything is at the top on the right hand side of the page. And if you want to sell your house like Blake did, we’ll accept that too! 

Every single dollar we raise will go entirely into making the show about camp you've always wanted. And because we’re doing this completely independently, every dollar really does make a huge difference. It’s not going into Venti Skinny Soy-based Pumpkin Spice Lattes or a travelling gym for Blake to work out  in (he's put on a few), it’s going directly into camera and lighting rentals, paying our small professional cast and crew, and making sure there’s enough mac n' cheese for lunch. And if one dollar makes a difference, you can imagine what $20 can do! Remember, the minimum we need is $500,000, but the more we raise, the better this show will be and the more episodes we can shoot.

(Although Ian did a brief a stint as a rodeo clown) 

We've been guerrilla filmmakers working with small and non-existent budgets for years. One of the last films Blake produced went to Sundance, AJ won a Canadian Comedy Award (and Canadians are funny!), Ian is a graduate of the famous Second City and UCB's comedy schools and even ghostwrote jokes for a famous comedian (whose name he can't say due to an NDA).  All together, our projects have accumulated millions of views on YouTube, and we're used to making mountains out of molehill budgets. 

Combined with great actors from some of your favourite shows like The Vampire Diaries, House of Cards, Homeland, Mr. Robot, Scream, Chicago Fire, Scream, Reign, and many more, Timberwood is where indie meets Hollywood. An accomplished indie team with experienced Hollywood talent. As you saw in the pilot, this perfect merger will give you great production value for a fraction of the cost!  Time to use the power of the internet and make a TV show come to life, together!

Even if you’re not able to contribute financially, the more people who see this, the better chance we have in raising the money we need. The pilot is FREE! So get your friends to watch it! Make some noise on social media. Put it on your Instagram stories! Put a link on your Facebook page! Tweet about it! Let’s make this more popular than those Riverdale kids!

Click the link below to download the Timberwood Media Pack which contains images and videos for you to post all over the internet.

CLICK HERE FOR THE TIMBERWOOD MEDIA PACK

 

We need to make as many Timberwood fans as we can as quickly as possible, and we can’t do it without your help! Remember, the first episode is 100% FREE to watch for a limited time! So tell people to watch it! They have no excuse! Help us spread the word. You’ll be helping your friends discover a great show, and maybe even help fund it along the way!

If you and your friends pre-order the show now, we’ll be able to use that money to make the show and you get to be a part of the experience! Along with some great other perks, for $25 you'll get exclusive access to the whole show directly to you as soon as it’s finished. You might have bought it anyway, think of this as just planning ahead! And even if it’s just $1, everything adds up to making this thing real! 

                                                       - Blake, Ian, and AJ

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THE WHOLE FIRST SEASON

$25 USD $50 USD (50% off)
Want to see more? You'll get to see the whole first season of Timberwood for free as soon as it's done and before anyone else! Pre-order the show now and we use that money to make the series actually happen. Not only are you buying the first season, but you’re actually the one funding it! And without you, there will only ever be this one episode.
Included Items
  • Thank You!
  • Shooting Script
  • Season One before the public
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THANK YOU!

$1 USD
Liked the pilot? Wanna see more? Every dollar helps us get closer to making the rest of the first season. But it won't happen without you. If you can, throw us a buck and we'll make sure it's spent wisely giving you the best possible show we can make! We'll keep you in the loop, and when it's released you'll know you helped make it happen!
Included Items
  • Thank You!
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SCRIPT + EPISODE 2

$10 USD
For less than the cost of lunch you’ll be one of the first to see Episode 2 (Arrival Day) as soon as it's done. PLUS, we’ll send you a DIGITAL SCRIPT (our actual shooting script) complete with lines that didn't make the cut, new handwritten jokes, and director notes (aka gossip)! BONUS: you get to see all the spelling nistakes Ian made!
Included Items
  • Shooting Script
  • Free early access to episode 2
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SWAG & THE SHOW

$55 USD
Not only will you get ACCESS TO SEASON ONE before the public, but you'll also get your choice of SWAG as well! That's SEASON ONE and the DIGITAL SCRIPT, PLUS we’ll send you your choice of a limited edition TIMBERWOOD T-SHIRT, TOTE BAG, WATER BOTTLE, SOCKS, MUG, HAT, or collection of super cool TIMBERWOOD PINS our actual production designer made!
Included Items
  • Shooting Script
  • Season One before the public
  • Your Choice of Swag!
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COUNSELOR'S ESSENTIALS KIT

$200 USD
You get THE SCRIPT and ACCESS TO SEASON ONE early, PLUS an exclusive COUNSELOR'S ESSENTIALS KIT that includes everything you'd need for a summer at Timberwood, or your next summer at your own camp! T-SHIRT, PORTABLE FAN, BEER PONG SET, DECK OF CARDS, FLASHLIGHT, and LIP CHAP (in case you do some kissing at Margo's... we're looking at you Kira!)
Included Items
  • Shooting Script
  • Season One before the public
  • Limited Edition T-Shirt
  • Counselor's Essentials Kit!
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BE AN EXTRA

$500 USD
Be an extra on camera for the day and experience what it's like to be in the film industry! You’ll get to hang out on set, meet and take photos with the cast & director, tour the camp we use as a location, and peek behind the curtain at the making a TV show! *Transport from NYC and all the delicious camp mac n’ cheese you can eat included*
Included Items
  • Be an extra on the show
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YOU GO GLEN COCO!

$500 USD
Get a PERSONALIZED VIDEO from the real GLEN COCO! Timberwood is stacked with great actors, and David Reale (William) also played Glen Coco in Mean Girls! Can't figure out what to get the Mean Girls fan who has everything while supporting the dreams of other filmmakers? THIS & ONLY THIS! Perfect for birthdays, proposals, lawsuits and more!
Included Items
  • Video Message from Glen Coco
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SKYPE WITH US!

$500 USD
Have questions about the show? Have questions about what it takes to make your own TV show? With this perk, you get a 30 Min Skype session with the writers and director to talk about the show, Hollywood gossip, the weather, or whatever you want!
Included Items
  • Skype Session w/creators (30m)
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NAME DROP

$1,000 USD
You’ll get all of the $200 perks, plus you'll have YOUR NAME MENTIONED by one of the characters in an episode of the show! Don't like your name? Try someone else's! Your crush! Your mortal enemy! It's up to you! PLUS we’ll send you a framed copy of the page in the script where your name appears. *All names subject to legal clearance.
Included Items
  • Name mentioned on the show
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VIP PREMIERE EXPERIENCE - NYC

$1,250 USD
Get TWO VIP TICKETS to the exclusive Season 1 Premiere in NYC! See bloopers, outtakes, and share in the celebrations at a PRIVATE AFTER PARTY with the CAST & CREW. Last time we did this Ian started freestyle rapping and Ariane puked into a cereal box! *Travel/accommodations in NYC not included*
Included Items
  • Attend the Wrap Party
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NAME A NOTABLE CHARACTER

$3,000 USD
We’ll name a NOTABLE CHARACTER after you! This ain't just a mention, be the real life Kramer! With great power comes great responsibility! Get all of the $150 perks, two VIP Premiere Tickets, PLUS we’ll send you a signed, framed copy of the page in the first script where your name appears. *All names subject to legal clearance.
Included Items
  • Name a character after you
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NAME THE RIVAL CAMP

$5,000 USD
What's Springfield without Shelbyville? Get all the $150 perks, Two VIP Premiere tickets, PLUS you’ll get to NAME THE RIVAL CAMP in the show. Name it after the camp you went to! What better way to show your camp pride than to have all of our characters hate it with a passion! We’ll make sure you hear and see the name on screen!
Included Items
  • Name the rival camp
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BE AN ACTOR

$7,500 USD
Wish you were a counselor at Timberwood? We'll write you a memorable line and you'll be on screen with one of the leads! Plus you'll be listed in the credits and on IMDB, have lunch with us on set, and add your face to the Timberwood universe! PLUS you'll get two VIP Premiere Tickets (duh you're part of the cast!) *Travel from NYC included.*
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  • Be an actor on the show
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CHARITABLE DONOR

$10,000 USD
Sure we’re making a show about the camp counselor experience, but we worked at camp ourselves and saw first hand the difference it can make in children’s lives. In this category we’ll donate half of your contribution to send underprivileged children to summer camp. PLUS you’ll get an exclusive set visit and tickets to the screening in NYC!
Included Items
  • a heart of gold
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EXCLUSIVE MARGOS PARTY

$12,500 USD
Experience what it’s like to party like a counselor at Margo’s! You and up to 20 of your your friends will hop on a VIP bus in NYC and travel upstate to the real Margo's! Play flip cup, beer pong, and dance the night away to "Drift Away" on the jukebox! Who knows, maybe some of the cast will even be there! *drinks and food provided (21+ only)
Included Items
  • exclusive party at Margo's!
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BE A PRODUCER

$15,000 USD
Want to put your name on the show? You’ll be listed in the credits and IMDB as an INDIEGOGO PRODUCER. You'll get an EXCLUSIVE SET VISIT, SIGNED PHOTOS AND SCRIPT WITH THE CAST, a DIRECTOR'S CHAIR WITH YOUR NAME ON IT and 2 VIP PREMIERE TICKETS. You're a real life Hollywood PRODUCER now! *Travel from NYC to set included.*
Included Items
  • Be a Producer
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WE VISIT YOUR CAMP

$25,000 USD
Get you and your camp friends together, pool your money, and have the cast of Timberwood actually SHOW UP AT YOUR CAMP! Some of the actors will spend a day hanging out with you, learning your inside jokes, screening upcoming episodes, and maybe even breaking out Colour War! (2019) *Great for current campers, camp owners, or counselors!*
Included Items
  • Cast Comes to your Camp!
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THE GOLF CART

$35,000 USD
All of the BE A PRODUCER perks PLUS you get to KEEP THE GOLF CART from the show! Have an issue with your fake girlfriend? Try talking it out with a friend during a ride in the actual golf cart we use in the show! It’s yours to keep forever, complete with Camp Timberwood logo and Olly's shame still lingering in the air.
Included Items
  • keep the on screen golf cart
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FUND THE WHOLE SHOW

$2,000,000 USD
Want to fund the whole first season? Let's talk!
Included Items
  • Be a Producer
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