Dead Walk Fest was acquired, reimagined, and relaunched by Anthony Cooney with a new mission: to create opportunities for independent horror filmmakers, artists, musicians, vendors, and creators who are often overlooked by traditional industry spaces.

What began as a film festival has evolved into a community-driven platform supporting independent film, original artwork, physical media culture, live events, and emerging creators across multiple mediums.

Now we want to take that commitment even further.

Funds raised through this campaign will be reinvested directly into what we plan to make one of the largest organized campaigns to hire independent artists worldwide.

We have already invested thousands of dollars commissioning artists for posters, merchandise, promotional artwork, and other creative projects. **Dead Walk Fest uses human-made artwork. We do not use AI-generated artwork for our projects.**

If you are concerned about the impact of AI on working artists, this is an opportunity to do something tangible about it.

**Support human artists by hiring human artists.**

Every dollar donated through this campaign will go directly toward paid opportunities for artists. Our goal isn't simply to talk about supporting artists. We want to put money directly into their hands and give them opportunities to have their work seen, sold, and celebrated.

We have also built a retail arm of our organization and will be vending at multiple upcoming events, where we will begin rolling out original merchandise featuring the work of multiple artists.

The more we raise, the more artists we can hire.

**100% of the funds raised through this campaign will be used to pay artists.**

Help us help artists.

Help us prove that supporting human creativity can mean more than a social media post.

**Let's put money into the hands of artists.**