NonFiction
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We have launched a Kickstarter campaign to support final production on our feature doc, The Girl Who Knew Too Much. Three days in, and as I type we're a bit over 20%.
We started off making a whole different film--a promo/doc for an NGO that gives poor Nepali girls scholarships. We fell in love with the subject, and with one girl in particular, Shanta. She was an untouchable girl from a rural village, who'd won a scholarship to study in the capital, Kathmandu. Shanta was on track to break the generational cycle of poverty, it seemed, and while we shot with her in 2008, she just got it We resolved to return to Nepal to tell her story in a bigger way, an in so doing, prove to all the world that educating girls really is the best thing we can do to combat global poverty.
But before we made it back, and just a year from her graduation from high school, Shanta killed herself.
We were devastated, and then astounded to learn that in the last 10 years, suicide has become the number one killer of girls and women in Nepal. We went back a few times, piecing together our new story, and now we need to raise funds to make our final trip back, in January-February 2013. In the big picture, we think our film is about helping to illuminate ways global development/aid/health initiatives can do their very important job better, by taking into account some of the on-the-ground complexities inherent in their work.
Have a look at the Kickstarter here. And the film's Facebook page here. And the film's website here (click on the BLOG link for project updates).
I'm pretty new at doing a lot of social media stuff, but thus far it seems like it's working reasonably well? If there are any Facebook ninjas out there, I'd LOVE help devising a good set of best practices for outreach, sharing, thanking, etc. It's especially hard because the film's FB is not a 'person', so some things won't let you Friend them, so I find myself friending supporters from my personal page, then reaching out that way.
We're also just getting the beginnings of a Twitter presence. Advice is welcome there as well.
All of this is happening very fast. Our goals are not simply to get the production trip funded, but to identify and gain the emotional and practical investment of a good chunk of our audience. This is real do-gooder stuff, the subject matter is kind of a downer, and all of the blah-blah can be a bit dry for a lot of people. But if you are at all interested in what we're doing, please share it around via Facebook and emails and even here in the forum.
And by all means, if there's something we're doing in the Kickstarter campaign that you think could be improved, please let us know. We want to do this right.
Please come by and have a look, let us know what you think. Thanks!
We started off making a whole different film--a promo/doc for an NGO that gives poor Nepali girls scholarships. We fell in love with the subject, and with one girl in particular, Shanta. She was an untouchable girl from a rural village, who'd won a scholarship to study in the capital, Kathmandu. Shanta was on track to break the generational cycle of poverty, it seemed, and while we shot with her in 2008, she just got it We resolved to return to Nepal to tell her story in a bigger way, an in so doing, prove to all the world that educating girls really is the best thing we can do to combat global poverty.
But before we made it back, and just a year from her graduation from high school, Shanta killed herself.
We were devastated, and then astounded to learn that in the last 10 years, suicide has become the number one killer of girls and women in Nepal. We went back a few times, piecing together our new story, and now we need to raise funds to make our final trip back, in January-February 2013. In the big picture, we think our film is about helping to illuminate ways global development/aid/health initiatives can do their very important job better, by taking into account some of the on-the-ground complexities inherent in their work.
Have a look at the Kickstarter here. And the film's Facebook page here. And the film's website here (click on the BLOG link for project updates).
I'm pretty new at doing a lot of social media stuff, but thus far it seems like it's working reasonably well? If there are any Facebook ninjas out there, I'd LOVE help devising a good set of best practices for outreach, sharing, thanking, etc. It's especially hard because the film's FB is not a 'person', so some things won't let you Friend them, so I find myself friending supporters from my personal page, then reaching out that way.
We're also just getting the beginnings of a Twitter presence. Advice is welcome there as well.
All of this is happening very fast. Our goals are not simply to get the production trip funded, but to identify and gain the emotional and practical investment of a good chunk of our audience. This is real do-gooder stuff, the subject matter is kind of a downer, and all of the blah-blah can be a bit dry for a lot of people. But if you are at all interested in what we're doing, please share it around via Facebook and emails and even here in the forum.
And by all means, if there's something we're doing in the Kickstarter campaign that you think could be improved, please let us know. We want to do this right.
Please come by and have a look, let us know what you think. Thanks!
