WE DID IT! Thank you so much to everyone who supported us throughout our campaign. It was a challenging but exciting journey and we can’t wait to share this project with you.
Our campaign ended on Thursday, August 16 at an exciting 101% which totaled $35,557! We honestly couldn’t be more shocked and happy at the results. We will continue posting updates on our Seed & Spark page and on social media as we finish up pre-production, and start shooting the final 2 days on our pilot episode in October.
Welp. We’re here already. We have LESS THAN 48 HOURS until the end of our crowdfunding campaign on Thursday, August 16, at 10:00 AM PST.
Please follow/support/share at www.journeytotheannex.com. Seriously, EVERY LITTLE BIT, and every share and every follow helps in a huge way!
We must reach at least 80% of our goal, or else we receive zero funding and cannot complete production on our pilot episode. That means: - We need $5,670 in order to be Greenlit - We need $12,670 in order to be fully funded - We need 41 more followers in order to unlock our next level of filmmaker perks, such as discounts on rental equipment, professional consultations, and waived festival fees. (Followers do NOT need to contribute financially).
And just a reminder, our 24-HOUR LIVESTREAM will start tomorrow, Wednesday, at 10:00 AM. Find us on Facebook.
Thank you!
We’re coming up on the FINAL DAY! If you can, please support. If you can’t, please share! Every pledge, follow, share goes a long way! Thank you!
For the final day of our campaign, we will be hosting a 24-HOUR LIVESTREAM. Yep, you read that right. 24-hours. Of us. On camera. On the internet. The livestream will run from Wednesday, August 15 at 10:00 AM PST through Thursday, August 16 at 10:00 AM PST. We’ll be sharing the links via email and on social media. And don’t worry, it won’t just be us. We have some awesome guests lined up! Here’s a peek at some of our friends who will be joining us:
Lauren Shippen (creator of “The Bright Sessions”)
Justin McLachlan (creator of “Eos10”)
J.T. Tepnapa (filmmaker w/ Blue Seraph Prods.) & husband Adam Browne will be mixing us PURE-inspired cocktails
Richard Cardenas w/ the podcast “Interview with a Nerd” will be recording an episode of his show with us
Shaina Vorspan will join Julia Morizawa for a sneak peek into their new audio drama “American Comedy Horror Story”
Brian K. Hillard and Sage Porter visit from Crusades 22 to discuss their work in VR therapy for veterans.
And more!
Be sure to follow us atwww.journeytotheannex.com to receive the details, links, and updated schedule for the livestream as it develops.
Thank you to everyone who contributed this past weekend to make our Dollar4Dollar Rush a HUGE SUCCESS! We received 63 new pledges totaling $2,056.00 in 3 days. And our generous anonymous donor has promised to matched that amount before the campaign is over.
We are nearing the end. We are approaching the FINAL 72 HOURS. Our campaign MUST end on Thursday, August 16, at 10:00 AM PST. And here’s what needs to happen (at the time of writing this update):
We need $7,624 to be Greenlit. Seed & Spark requires us to reach at least 80% of our goal or else we receive zero funding.
We need $14,624 to be fully funded. Although we are fully prepared to finish shooting our pilot episode in the event that we only make 80% of our goal, this is the ideal amount to cover our production budget and the campaign costs.
We need 64 more followers in order to unlock the next level of filmmaker perks, which include equipment rental discounts and professional consultations.
In the distant future where genetic modification has divided society, a warrior and her captive become unlikely allies as they journey to the Annex, escape the Dissension, and learn what it means to sacrifice for the future of their people.
PURE is a high-quality, independently produced digital series exploring freedom, sacrifice, and morality from an inclusive perspective.
Watch our lead actress, Julia Morizawa, discuss training and getting into shape for the role of Red; as well as her experiences training at the National Wushu Training Center, as Lucy Liu’s gymnast stunt double in “Charlie’s Angels 2,” and growing up as a competitive gymnast.
It’sGo Skateboarding Day, and what better way to celebrate than to highlight films throughout Sundance Film Festival history that feature skateboarding.
Founded in 2004 by Don Brown and the International Association of Skateboard Companies in California, the holiday gives skateboarders an opportunity to get outside and practice the sport with the help of participating cities worldwide.
Here are just a few films that capture the creativity, passion, drive, and so much more that skateboarding can ignite.
(Above) 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Hala dir. by Minhal Baig
Hala is her father’s pride and joy. Dutiful and academically gifted, she skillfully navigates both her social life as a teen in Chicago and her obligations as an only child to Pakistani immigrants. When she meets Jesse, a classmate who shares her love for poetry and skateboarding, their romance is complicated by her Muslim faith and a father who is prepared to arrange her marriage according to their family’s cultural tradition. As Hala begins to challenge these customs, her parents’ own lives start to unravel, testing the power of Hala’s flourishing voice.
2018 Sundance Film Festival, Skate Kitchen dir. by Crystal Moselle
Introverted 18-year-old skateboarder Camille lives on Long Island with her single mother. After a startling injury, she promises her mother she’ll hang up her board, but the pull to skate is too strong. On Instagram she discovers “The Skate Kitchen,” a subculture of girls whose lives revolve around skating, and bravely seeks them out… Skate Kitchen precisely captures the experience of women in male-dominated spaces and tells a story of a girl who learns the importance of camaraderie and self-discovery.
Today skateboarding is omnipresent. Take a walk down any street in any town, and you are destined to see someone riding a skateboard. Well, it wasn’t always like that. In the early ’80s, skateboarding was fading away until Stacy Peralta brought a profoundly talented group of outsiders together and dubbed them the Bones Brigade. This documentary chronicles their epic rise, using awesome archival footage and moving first-person accounts from Brigade members Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, and Rodney Mullen, among others.
Skateboarding has crossed over into the mainstream population due in large part to the humble beginnings of a group of eight teenagers in an area of Santa Monica called Dogtown. It was there that this mismatched gang of kids from broken homes formed a group known as the Zephyr Team aka Z-Boys… Reuniting the original crew 25 years later enables us to hear in their own words what it was like before x-treme sports existed.
All film stills courtesy of respective film titles.
Late Night is now playing in select cities and opens nationwide on Friday.
Director Nisha Ganatra and screenwriter Mindy Kaling premiered Late Night during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and it went on to be one of the Festival’s biggest deal earners of the year.
“So much of this movie is about being a fan and being on the outside of the entertainment business,” says Kaling. “That story has been told many, many, many times by 52-year-old white men, and I love all those movies. And as a comedy nerd I’ve always identified with them because it was the closest thing that I could identify with. There was no one like me making those kind of films.” - Mindy Kaling from Variety
Emma Thompson brings pathos and amusingly severe charm to the pantsuit-clad Katherine Newbury. Smartly written by Mindy Kaling and snappily directed by Nisha Ganatra, Late Night takes on white privilege, entitlement, and a culture veering toward crassness and conservatism. Questioning how women in power are “supposed” to act, it delivers a winsome, sophisticated comedy about the times in which we live.
