Kate's Passion Project - Film About Voter Rights

Friends, colleagues, family & those who may have a penny to spare,

Our dear friend - the writer Kate Lanier (What's Love Got To Do With it?, Set It Off, Beauty Shop, Mod Squad, Glitter, Honey, Rebel, The Jenni Riviera Story, etc.) is in need of our help.

She's currently at work on an independent film that centers on the early history of student involvement in the Voting Rights Movement in the South. This is the untold story of SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee). It chronicles field workers like Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses, Jim Forman and many unknown student activists who pushed the movement forward, culminating in the famous Selma to Montgomery March with MLK that forced Lyndon Johnson to sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Kate's collaborator on this project is the actor and director Daniel Danielson. Danielson's Aunt Posy was just one of the many SNCC volunteers. Daniel and Kate are creating this project at a moment in time when we all need to remember the necessity of voting rights!

This is a passion project for Kate, without the typical Hollywood budget and pay.

Not only does Kate need financing to continue writing this story, but she is currently being challenged by the impact of Covid-19. She is being evicted from her home. After a year and a half of no work due to Covid-19, Kate doesn't have the resources to find and secure a new home. Additionally, she has been suffering from a health crisis and without the requisite industry job, she may lose her health insurance.

Many of us are aware that Kate has overcome obstacles in the past, but now is a moment in which there are just too many critical challenges to overcome and she needs our help!

Please donate what you can!