BLACKFACE movie - Indie Film Fundraiser for 2021

We would love for you to be a part of the momentum pushing this project to production. By giving you will make it possible for this story to be told and to send the message to the world that as human beings, racism is unacceptable, and as individuals, we all are worthy of having our dreams fulfilled.

Our film budget is $3.1 million. We currently have $31,000 towards the budget apart from this Gofundme campaign.

Our goal is to raise $50,000 of our budget, if not more, from Gofundme donations, and the remainder, if any,  from philanthropic and equity investors.

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No worries if you don't have it to give, we'll take your sharing and good vibrations just as well!  Here's to a bright 2021!




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TIMELINE

This timeline is an estimation as we continue to secure creative leadership, talent, and partnerships.

BLACKFACE: the story of nobody is a 90 to 100-minute feature film, currently in development. During this phase, we aim to continue to secure key creative (talent and production) and leadership roles.

Again, our budget is $3.1 million with a 25-day shoot followed by two to three months for post-production.

We seek project donations,  investors, and/or a distributor to help finance the budget and to ensure a robust release for the film.

Depending upon partnerships and talent availability, as well as existing Covid-19 protocol, we endeavor to shoot starting on September 7, 2021, with a goal of a 2022 spring release.


AWARDS

Blackface: The Story of Nobody, was a semifinalist (top 2% of nearly 12,000 submitted scripts) for the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition in 2019. The script was also a semifinalist for WeScreenplay’s DIVERSE VOICES 2019 Lab and a finalist for Wescreenplay’s FEATURE 2019 screenwriting competition.

WHY?

Blackface was a popular form of entertainment in American theater starting in the 1830s and continued for approximately 100 years. White performers would apply a layer of burnt cork (usually from a wine bottle cork) onto their faces to darken their skin, exaggerate their lips and wear woolly wigs while playing-out their projected characterizations of enslaved Africans and free Blacks.

In many ways, these performances reinforced negative stereotypes and racist imagery that lingers today. Many people in the United States do not understand how and why this was offensive to Black people. This film will help explain why this is so.

School curricula in America mostly glosses over this degrading form of entertainment. Society, out of ignorance, or purposely to ridicule and demean African Americans continually perpetuates this hurtful form of entertainment through news accounts of people covering their faces in black, and other equally offensive ways, whether knowingly or unknowingly, that mock and scorn African Americans.

With so many intense conversations surrounding blackface - its painful origin, its modern implications, and the open wounds that still exist surrounding race and difference – the time couldn't be better or more potent for "BLACKFACE: The Story of Nobody" to go from script to screen.

SOCIAL IMPACT

This film explores the denial of access for African Americans and people of color connected to systemic racial inequality. As with the "We See You White American Theater" movement starting with discussing how racism and white supremacy have shaped and corrupted our theater and other arts institutions, this film, plotwise, thematically, and by using its "Jim Crow" setting, illustrates the genesis of those practices.

Our protagonist desperately desires to be accepted and respected among New York's performing elite. It is not until he is confronted with the machine-like racist system bent on excluding those of color that he is set on a journey toward self-realization.

This film does not leave us ruminating in the despair of social inequities but rather it cinematically unfolds a story, favorably showing what 'room-for-all' looks like while also shining a light on the inherent evil of white supremacy.