Help Us Make A Mini Series! - "Contemporary Life"

"CONTEMPORARY LIFE" 
A NEW MINI-SERIES FROM GEORGE HAWKE

Artsy university students indulge their needs for love, sex, and other drugs. Sometimes it's more pain than it's worth. Meanwhile, a documentary filmmaker interviews artists living and working in the city.


Some people peak in high school. Some people peak in college. Countless books, movies, and TV shows have attempted to capture these      formative periods with classically sweet coming-of-age narratives. In a film editing class, the coming-of-age story was defined to me as the one in which the protagonist manages to satisfy their needs but not their wants, and in doing so, learns a valuable lesson about what is important in life. These types of media tend to idealize youth as a special, unfettered time of exploration. In reality, I have found that young people feel inextricably tied to the mysterious "future" they've been told to prepare for since grade school.

Now, place yourself at this moment in time: you're looking at the years behind you and are subtly suspicious that you've misspent all of them. You're looking at your current list of accomplishments, and there's nothing there that anyone who doesn't know you could conceivably give a shit about. You don't have much of your own money. You're starting to feel like a leech on your parents' resources. You're about to graduate with an art degree—no real job prospects, and not a moment of that time felt like a scene from a coming-of-age movie. What gives?

Enter, Contemporary Life!
We are making a mini-series to save the day and give YOU the fairytale ending you deserve!

Hey guys, it's George. I've made past films such as Lemon Fresh and Ode to Cats. I'm that one kid who was handing out slips of paper with websites that take you to my YouTube videos. I am a Temple student, 21 years young.

In the brief time that I've been making films, I have noticed a tendency within myself to fluctuate between highly controlled exercises to help me practice film directing versus more adventurous artistic experiments, throwing caution to the wind. And...throwing a bunch of shit at the wall to see what sticks.

This mini-series falls into the latter category. My team and I are very excited to share with you 4 college-age stories of awkwardness, intimacy, insecurity, and hope. We've written them aiming for honesty by sharing experiences, stories, and ideas of our own. We plan to juxtapose this fiction filmmaking with documentary interviews of real-world artists to offer some insight on how aspiring gen Z creators may bridge this gap from their time in academia into a world of industry. I'm a big believer in art as a form of healing and as a form of growth, and it would be my ultimate pleasure and privilege to lead a team of talented, young creatives in this rite of growth and healing. Let us put our pain on display for you. This project is going to be gutsy and real, and some may not have what it takes to watch it. But we've got what it takes to make it.

Now, I humbly ask that you become a part of our story and make a donation today.

What are your generous donations going towards?

Feeding our cast and crew.

Transportation costs.

Production design, ie: props, set dressing, etc.

Computer hardware for editing.

Outsourcing musical score or graphic design elements.

Distribution and exhibition costs

All people who donate (not anonymously) will be mentioned with a special "Thank You' in the credits.

Thank you all!