Sometimes the right person comes at the wrong time.

Hi, I’m Alex Gross, producer of From Winter to Spring, a short film written and directed by the wonderful Ally Kirton and brought to life by an incredible group of emerging filmmakers at the University of North Texas.

From Winter to Spring is a story about friendship, timing, growing up, and the love that can quietly exist between two people before either of them is ready to recognize it.

The film follows longtime friends Margo and Derrick across years of birthdays, relationships, missed opportunities, and moments where they almost realize that the person they’ve been looking for may have been beside them all along.

For months, our cast and crew gave their time, creativity, and energy to make this story real.

And we did it. The film has been shot.

Now we’re asking for help with something equally important: giving it a life after production.

We want From Winter to Spring to leave the classroom and reach audiences through film festivals, but getting a completed production festival-ready requires professional finishing work and submission costs that extend beyond our original student production budget.

Our $2,500 goal will help cover the film's remaining post-production needs, including professional sound work, music, final editing and color polish, mastering and festival deliverables, and submission fees for our festival run.

This isn't a fundraiser to someday make From Winter to Spring. The story already exists because dozens of people came together and believed it was worth making.

This fundraiser is about making sure all of that work gets the finish and the audience that it deserves.

Whether you contribute $5, $20, $50, or more, you're directly helping an emerging group of filmmakers take one of our first major projects beyond school and into the larger filmmaking world.

And if donating isn't possible, sharing this campaign is support too. Send it to someone who loves movies, romance, independent filmmaking, or simply wants to help young filmmakers get their work seen.

We took From Winter to Spring from words on a page to an actual film.

Now help us take it from our screen to the festival screen.

— Alex Gross

Producer, From Winter to Spring