Stare Into The Lights My Pretties - Crowdfunding Pitch
Channel: rwrite dotorg
Date: 2018-05-31

Raising funds to tour this documentary:
https://jore.cc/donate/ We live in a world of screens. The average adult spends the majority of their waking hours in front of some sort of screen or device. We're enthralled, we're addicted to these machines. How did we get here? Who benefits? 

*Stare Into The Lights My Pretties* investigates these questions with an urge to return to the real physical world, to form a critical view of technological escalation driven by rapacious and pervasive corporate interest. Covering themes of addiction, privacy, surveillance, information manipulation, behaviour modification and social control, the film lays the foundations as to why we may feel like we're sleeprunning into some dystopian nightmare with the machines at the helm. Because we are, if we don't seriously avert our eyes to stop this culture from destroying what is left of the real world.

After 5 years of research and production, I chose to publish this film online for free because I want this film to be accessible to as many audiences as possible. I worked hard on this project to make it a resource to question the very foundations of this digital age. Its a not-for-profit independent film that I hope is a catalyst for questioning, reflection and social change.

My pitch to you here is that with your financial support, you can help me enter this film into international film festivals, and have it physically screened in cinemas across the globe, to provide the opportunity for as many eyeballs and minds to take it in as possible.

All funds for this campaign will go towards covering submission costs and fees of entering international festivals (which can be quite expensive for a freelancer like me without any financial backing or institutional support, other than that from my audiences—thank you!), and depending on how much we raise, to also begin paying for professional transcription services to translate the film into other languages.

Accessibility and this film being a catalyst for change is what this is all about.

WATCH HERE
https://stareintothelightsmypretties.jore.cc/