Kick In to Fund Sudden Flowers’ Next Film

Sud­den Flow­ers Pro­duc­tions, the Ethiopian youth film col­lec­tive I am work­ing with, has recently fin­ished a script.  I’m help­ing them raise the mod­est funds needed to make the short film. “Yemayegefa K’en: The Day That Would Not End” is a work of fic­tion rich in themes rel­e­vant to con­tem­po­rary youth in Ethiopia. The story fol­lows 19-year-old Yeho­nen as he leaves behind fam­ily feuds in the coun­try­side to pur­sue higher edu­ca­tion in the city. In an unfa­mil­iar place, his val­ues are chal­lenged and his past comes back to haunt him with the unfor­tu­nate fate of his sister.

We are using Kickstarter.com as a fundrais­ing plat­form. Kick­starter gives peo­ple and orga­ni­za­tions an easy way to lever­age their own net­work to finance cre­ative projects. Projects only receive fund­ing if the fundrais­ing goal is reached. Project cre­ators must give rewards to donors depend­ing on how much money is pledge and keep donors updated on progress, encour­ag­ing a close rela­tion­ship with the projects they have funded.

There have been some gen­er­ous donors to Sud­den Flow­ers’ film after the first few days that the project was posted.  If you want to kick in, any small dona­tion is very much wel­come and you’ll get rewards and updates on the film’s progress from Sud­den Flow­ers Pro­duc­tions.  The wid­get above updates with the cur­rent progress of fundrais­ing.  Click on the wid­get to go to the Kick­starter page, get more infor­ma­tion and make a pledge!