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For my senior thesis, I am making a short film called "Speak."
I’m raising money to fund the costs for props, set dressing, extra film equipment, transportation, craft services, music rights, as well as festival submission fees and other unexpected costs that might arise. Any donation is much appreciated!
Keep reading if you’re interested in learning more about this exciting project:
This letter will serve as an introduction to my short film titled Speak. Planned to run approximately for 18 minutes, this digital production is a drama which explores how trauma and mental illness can have a long term effect on quality of life. A college freshman who suffers from crippling social anxiety must face her traumatic past and find courage to speak up for a little boy she mentors. She is the only one he has felt brave enough to confide in about the abuse he is suffering at home. The one-on-one time these two characters spend reading emphasizes how important reading is to recovery, development, and creativity. It is a story of reciprocal human solidarity in which all of the primary characters support one another on an arc towards vanquishing the stigma surrounding mental illness and family trauma.
My personal experience volunteering at local charter schools in impoverished districts in central city New Orleans is what influenced my story. Through my relationship with my reading buddy I learned first-hand how repeated exposure to violence alters a child’s brain development and other systems in the body. I wanted to further the need to address student trauma and highlight how a program like the reading buddy program affords these healing children the one-on-one attention they need to recover.
Speak is my thesis film here at Tulane University, and I am seeking funds with which to make the film. The university provides students with equipment and post production facilities. The remainder of the budget, approximately $1,500, is raised by the individual filmmaker—me.
Having said that, I am humbly seeking any support to make this film a reality. Shooting is scheduled to begin at the end of January, 2019, and I aim to raise $1,500 by then in order to budget accordingly. I am raising money to fund the costs for transportation, props, set dressing, extra film equipment, craft services, music rights, as well as festival submission fees and other unexpected costs that will arise. I have created a separate checking account specifically to organize the funds I have will raise for this film. I have created a separate checking account established specifically to organize the funds I have raised for this film.
I am a dedicated filmmaker who has held various positions as a Media Coverage Intern for Madhouse Entertainment, a Creative Development Intern at PMK*BNC, and a production assistant on various student films. I have made three very short films, a documentary on Tulane students, and directed two episodes of a student produced television show. Due to these experiences, I am organized and dependable. I am tenaciously driven to tell this story that is so close to my heart cinematically and that determination along with my experience illuminates the potential of this short film.
I hope you will take this opportunity to help get me to my goal!
Please note that references are available upon request.
-Kellyn Morris
I’m raising money to fund the costs for props, set dressing, extra film equipment, transportation, craft services, music rights, as well as festival submission fees and other unexpected costs that might arise. Any donation is much appreciated!
Keep reading if you’re interested in learning more about this exciting project:
This letter will serve as an introduction to my short film titled Speak. Planned to run approximately for 18 minutes, this digital production is a drama which explores how trauma and mental illness can have a long term effect on quality of life. A college freshman who suffers from crippling social anxiety must face her traumatic past and find courage to speak up for a little boy she mentors. She is the only one he has felt brave enough to confide in about the abuse he is suffering at home. The one-on-one time these two characters spend reading emphasizes how important reading is to recovery, development, and creativity. It is a story of reciprocal human solidarity in which all of the primary characters support one another on an arc towards vanquishing the stigma surrounding mental illness and family trauma.
My personal experience volunteering at local charter schools in impoverished districts in central city New Orleans is what influenced my story. Through my relationship with my reading buddy I learned first-hand how repeated exposure to violence alters a child’s brain development and other systems in the body. I wanted to further the need to address student trauma and highlight how a program like the reading buddy program affords these healing children the one-on-one attention they need to recover.
Speak is my thesis film here at Tulane University, and I am seeking funds with which to make the film. The university provides students with equipment and post production facilities. The remainder of the budget, approximately $1,500, is raised by the individual filmmaker—me.
Having said that, I am humbly seeking any support to make this film a reality. Shooting is scheduled to begin at the end of January, 2019, and I aim to raise $1,500 by then in order to budget accordingly. I am raising money to fund the costs for transportation, props, set dressing, extra film equipment, craft services, music rights, as well as festival submission fees and other unexpected costs that will arise. I have created a separate checking account specifically to organize the funds I have will raise for this film. I have created a separate checking account established specifically to organize the funds I have raised for this film.
I am a dedicated filmmaker who has held various positions as a Media Coverage Intern for Madhouse Entertainment, a Creative Development Intern at PMK*BNC, and a production assistant on various student films. I have made three very short films, a documentary on Tulane students, and directed two episodes of a student produced television show. Due to these experiences, I am organized and dependable. I am tenaciously driven to tell this story that is so close to my heart cinematically and that determination along with my experience illuminates the potential of this short film.
I hope you will take this opportunity to help get me to my goal!
Please note that references are available upon request.
-Kellyn Morris