The Quest for Happiness
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The Quest for Happiness Documentary
The purpose of this campaign is to gather funds to create a documentary, called The Quest for Happiness examining the most important question in our lives:
What is happiness… and how do we attain it?
Through this documentary, I want to explore the notion of happiness and inspire people to pursue their own version of happiness. Toward this purpose, I am going to interview people around the world about the concept of happiness, especially those who have made major changes as a result of trauma, spiritual quest or other epiphanies that caused them to radically change their lives in order to actively pursue their happiness in a new place or a new way.
My hope is that by examining people’s individual stories, their journeys big and small more people will find the courage to pursue their dreams.
If you would like to share your story with the world then please submit your letter or video on this facebook page or directly on my website .
In addition to people like you I would like to interview experts with an academic background on the subject of happiness. But I will also attempt to do interviews with well-known personalities like The Dalai Lama or Simon Pegg (Hector and the Search for Happiness) or even Jon Stewart (he is leaving the Daily Show...).
Timeline and Funding
I will start filming in October over the course of 9 months and complete the editing in the following 3 months. The deadline for completing this project is therefore October 2016. I will continuously post updates during that time. Including photos, videos and blogs.
I will use my funds purely for travel arrangements, such as flights, hotels and food. The more funds I gather the more countries and people I can visit.
I projected that I need at least 20,000$ to cover three continents, Europe, Asia and North America. But if I can gather more than that then I would like to include South America and Africa as well, in order to get the perspective from people living in developing countries, but also to visit people in the Amazon and remote regions of Africa.
Please help me to fund this project to inspire people around to world to follow their passion and pursue their happiness.
The Rewards
Anyone supporting The Quest for Happiness will be able to watch the documentary in full and free of charge on Vimeo. If you pledge 50$ or more you will receive a DVD in the post. Anyone pledging more than 50$ will also receive a T-Shirt and will have their logo and company name shown in the documentary credits as well as on the The Quest for Happiness website.
About Tom Reissmann
I am a travel videographer but I also help people to follow their passion of living abroad and traveling by teaching them how to make a living with travel videos. I teach people about videography through an online course as well as during workshops in the US and France.
I was born in East Germany and went to High School in the US. I studied Tourism Management in the UK and Australia. My first job was working as a research assistant in Costa Rica, studying the effects of ecotourism. I subsequently spent time traveling in South America and wrote a book, called Journey of Coincidence . I then worked as a hostel manager in Auckland, New Zealand. I became a travel videographer in 2004 and created travel videos for tour companies and hotels in Africa, Europe, Australia and North America.
I have published an online course on travel videography with Great Escape Publishing and hold regular workshop and video expeditions.
In this documentary I will entertain the following questions:
Happiness and the Individual
What choices in life lead to happiness?
Is Happiness simply an attitude or dependent on circumstances?
How do we make positive changes in our lives and overcome our fears?
Happiness on Location
Can certain places help make us happy?
What are the happiest countries in the world and why?
How do society and culture contribute to our happiness?
Happiness in Practice
How do we lead happy relationships?
Do certain activities make us happy?
How does money contribute to our happiness?
How do we find our passion and make a living with it?
Can certain spiritual pursuits make us happy?
The purpose of this campaign is to gather funds to create a documentary, called The Quest for Happiness examining the most important question in our lives:
What is happiness… and how do we attain it?
Through this documentary, I want to explore the notion of happiness and inspire people to pursue their own version of happiness. Toward this purpose, I am going to interview people around the world about the concept of happiness, especially those who have made major changes as a result of trauma, spiritual quest or other epiphanies that caused them to radically change their lives in order to actively pursue their happiness in a new place or a new way.
My hope is that by examining people’s individual stories, their journeys big and small more people will find the courage to pursue their dreams.
If you would like to share your story with the world then please submit your letter or video on this facebook page or directly on my website .
In addition to people like you I would like to interview experts with an academic background on the subject of happiness. But I will also attempt to do interviews with well-known personalities like The Dalai Lama or Simon Pegg (Hector and the Search for Happiness) or even Jon Stewart (he is leaving the Daily Show...).
Timeline and Funding
I will start filming in October over the course of 9 months and complete the editing in the following 3 months. The deadline for completing this project is therefore October 2016. I will continuously post updates during that time. Including photos, videos and blogs.
I will use my funds purely for travel arrangements, such as flights, hotels and food. The more funds I gather the more countries and people I can visit.
I projected that I need at least 20,000$ to cover three continents, Europe, Asia and North America. But if I can gather more than that then I would like to include South America and Africa as well, in order to get the perspective from people living in developing countries, but also to visit people in the Amazon and remote regions of Africa.
Please help me to fund this project to inspire people around to world to follow their passion and pursue their happiness.
The Rewards
Anyone supporting The Quest for Happiness will be able to watch the documentary in full and free of charge on Vimeo. If you pledge 50$ or more you will receive a DVD in the post. Anyone pledging more than 50$ will also receive a T-Shirt and will have their logo and company name shown in the documentary credits as well as on the The Quest for Happiness website.
About Tom Reissmann
I am a travel videographer but I also help people to follow their passion of living abroad and traveling by teaching them how to make a living with travel videos. I teach people about videography through an online course as well as during workshops in the US and France.
I was born in East Germany and went to High School in the US. I studied Tourism Management in the UK and Australia. My first job was working as a research assistant in Costa Rica, studying the effects of ecotourism. I subsequently spent time traveling in South America and wrote a book, called Journey of Coincidence . I then worked as a hostel manager in Auckland, New Zealand. I became a travel videographer in 2004 and created travel videos for tour companies and hotels in Africa, Europe, Australia and North America.
I have published an online course on travel videography with Great Escape Publishing and hold regular workshop and video expeditions.
In this documentary I will entertain the following questions:
Happiness and the Individual
What choices in life lead to happiness?
Is Happiness simply an attitude or dependent on circumstances?
How do we make positive changes in our lives and overcome our fears?
Happiness on Location
Can certain places help make us happy?
What are the happiest countries in the world and why?
How do society and culture contribute to our happiness?
Happiness in Practice
How do we lead happy relationships?
Do certain activities make us happy?
How does money contribute to our happiness?
How do we find our passion and make a living with it?
Can certain spiritual pursuits make us happy?
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Tom Reissmann
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