The Horton family and the makers of A Voice for Lil Olive sincerely thank everyone who has contributed toward the budget of this important project. For a film with our intended scope — A-list celebrity involvement, country-wide footage acquisition, worldwide promotional strategy — we’ve only scratched the surface of where we need to be financially.
Your initial support has allowed us to effectively build our pre-production strategy and formulate our initial promotional materials such as the brochure and the teaser trailer. Now it is time to acquire funds for the actual pre-production phase.
In this day and age, with expanding independent film production, it has become common practice to prove the viability of your movie by completing an effective crowd-funding campaign. The A Voice for Lil Olive project is no exception.
Starting February 17, we launch with a campaign goal of $85,000. The complete budget (at this stage) to bring the film to a point of distribution is $485,000.
Pre-production means simply that we begin scheduling and booking the on-camera footage we’ll need; find and book the experts and mill dog owners who we will profile; research and then write the outline for our story — and acquire the celebrity representatives who will participate.
We can’t make this film without you. So please help us reach our goal of $85,000, or better yet, help us raise our entire production budget! Like so many other documentary films, the funds needed come primarily from charitable organizations and individuals like you. Our team will be pursuing all potential funding avenues, including corporate sponsorship, and we need all the help we can get. We’ll take any suggestions, tips, names and so on that any of you might be willing to pass along.
As we’ve stated in the past, A Voice for Lil Olive will be a top-notch production, and our budget is rather small in Hollywood terms. But it is the passion behind the film — a passion that lies in the story of Lil Olive — that will drive us through to a large audience.
Visit IndieGoGo to support our campaign. We hope you’ll contribute, and we also hope that you’ll share the link, share our message and ask others to contribute as well. (We’ve got some pretty fun incentives!)
Together we can make a real difference, put an end to puppy mills once and for all….and speak for those with no voice.
Thank you!
Pete and Ashley Schuermann, Director and Co-Executive Producer
A Voice for Lil Olive